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

Researching Education Through Actor-Network Theory offers a new take on educational research, demonstrating the ways in which actor-network theory can expand the understanding of educational change.

* An international collaboration exploring diverse manifestations of educational change

* Illustrates the impact of actor-network theory on educational research

* Positions education as a key area where actor-network theory can add value, as it has been shown to do in other social sciences

* A valuable resource for anyone interested in the sociology and philosophy of education

Зміст

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

Про автора

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).