Researching Education Through Actor-Network Theory

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

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