Researching Education Through Actor-Network Theory

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 ProPEL, 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).

• Notes on Contributors vii Foreword viiiIntroductionTara Fenwick & Richard Edwards ix1 Devices and Educational ChangeJan Nespor 12 Translating the Prescribed into the Enacted Curriculum in College and SchoolRichard Edwards 233 Unruly Practices: What a sociology of translations can offer to educational policy analysisMary Hamilton 404 ANT on the PISA Trail: Following the statistical pursuit of certaintyRadhika Gorur 605 Assembling the ‘Accomplished’ Teacher: The performativity and politics of professional teaching standardsDianne Mulcahy 786 Reading Educational Reform with Actor-Network Theory: Fluid spaces, otherings, and ambivalencesTara Fenwick 97Index 117