Tara Fenwick & Richard Edwards 
Researching Education Through Actor-Network Theory [PDF ebook] 

Notes on Contributors vii
Foreword viii
Introduction
Tara Fenwick & Richard Edwards ix
1 Devices and Educational Change
Jan Nespor 1
2 Translating the Prescribed into the Enacted Curriculum in
College and School
Richard Edwards 23
3 Unruly Practices: What a sociology of translations can
offer to educational policy analysis
Mary Hamilton 40
4 ANT on the PISA Trail: Following the statistical pursuit of
certainty
Radhika Gorur 60
5 Assembling the ‘Accomplished’ Teacher: The
performativity and politics of professional teaching
standards
Dianne Mulcahy 78
6 Reading Educational Reform with Actor-Network Theory: Fluid
spaces, otherings, and ambivalences
Tara Fenwick 97
Index 117

Tara Fenwick is Professor of Professional Education in
the School of Education at the University of Stirling, UK. She was
previously Head of Educational Studies at the University of British
Columbia, Canada. The director of Pro PEL, an international network
researching professional practice, education and learning, she has
a particular interest in professionals’ knowledge sources and
strategies, and the changing nature of professional
responsibility.
Richard Edwards is Professor of Education and Head of the
School of Education at the University of Stirling, and previously
spent 12 years as a lecturer, senior lecturer and reader with
the Open University. He has written extensively on adult education
and lifelong learning.
Tara Fenwick and Richard Edwards are the authors of
Actor-Network Theory in Education (2010) and, with Peter
Sawchuk, of Emerging Approaches to Educational Research: Tracing
the Sociomaterial (2011).