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  • Revisiting Actor-Network Theory in Education

    Edited by Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards ...
    Series series Education and Social Theory
    Actor-network theory (ANT) is enjoying a notable surge of interest in educational research. New directions and questions are emerging along with new empirical approaches, as educators bring unique sensibilities and commitments to the ongoing debates and reconfigurations that characterise ANT-inspired research. Ethics and politics are now figuring more prominently in ANT-related educational ... Read more

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  • Professional Responsibility and Professionalism

    A sociomaterial examination

    by Tara Fenwick ...
    Responsibility and professionalism are increasingly issues of concern for professional associations, employers and educators alike. When bad things happen, professionals are often held personally accountable for complex situations. Professional Responsibility and Professionalism advances our approaches to professional responsibility from individual-centred, virtue-based prescriptions towards ... Read more

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  • Professional Learning in Changing Contexts

    The knowledge and decisions of professionals influence all facets of modern life, a fact reflected by the increasing and distinct emphasis on public accountability for what professionals know and do. The nature of this accountability has been fundamentally transformed in response to a changing context of market pressures, network arrangements, declining discretion and public trust, and public ... Read more

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  • Materialities, Textures and Pedagogies

    Edited by Tara Fenwick, Paolo Landri ...
    This book joins a developing tradition of ‘practice-based’ conceptions of learning, but with a special interest in foregrounding the materiality of educational processes. It challenges educational views that are preoccupied with developing a particular kind of human subject, and argues that relations among materials – including texts and technologies, embodiment, tools and natural forces - are key ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Reconceptualising Professional Learning

    Sociomaterial knowledges, practices and responsibilities

    Edited by Tara Fenwick, Monika Nerland ...
    This book presents leading-edge perspectives and methodologies to address emerging issues of concern for professional learning in contemporary society. The conditions for professional practice and learning are changing dramatically in the wake of globalization, new modes of knowledge production, new regulatory regimes, and increased economic-political pressures. In the wake of this, a number of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • World Yearbook of Education 2014

    Governing Knowledge: Comparison, Knowledge-Based Technologies and Expertise in the Regulation of Education

    Series series World Yearbook of Education
    This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on a major and highly significant development in the governing of education across the globe: the use of knowledge-based technologies as key policy sources. A combination of factors has produced this shift: first, the massive expansion of technological capacity signalled by the arrival of ‘big data’ that allows for the collection ... Read more

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  • Emerging Approaches to Educational Research

    Tracing the Socio-Material

    The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either post-structural or postmodern. The works of Foucault, Derrida and Lyotard have variously found their way ... Read more

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  • Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research

    Politics, languages and responsibilities

    Edited by Tara Fenwick, Lesley Farrell ...
    How can educational research have more impact? What processes of knowledge exchange are most effective for increasing the uses of research results? How can research-produced knowledge be better ‘mobilized’ among users such as practicing educators, policy makers, and the public communities?These sorts of questions are commanding urgent attention in educational discourses and research policies now ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • World Yearbook of Education 2007

    Educating the Global Workforce: Knowledge, Knowledge Work and Knowledge Workers

    Edited by Lesley Farrell, Tara Fenwick ...
    Series series World Yearbook of Education
    The 2007 edition of this respected international volume considers the challenges facing work related education arising from the rapid expansion of the global economy and the impact of this on labour markets and individual workers.Including perspectives from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South America, India and South Africa, the 2007 volume is split into four ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Actor-Network Theory in Education

    Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has enjoyed wide uptake in the social sciences in the past three decades, particularly in science and technology studies, and is increasingly attracting the attention of educational researchers. ANT studies bring to the fore the material – objects of all kinds – and de-centre the human and the social in educational issues. ANT sensibilities are interested in the ways ... Read more

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  • Researching Education Through Actor-Network Theory

    Edited by Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards ...
    Series Book 31 - Educational Philosophy and Theory Special Issues
    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 changeIllustrates the impact of actor-network theory on educational researchPositions education as a key area where actor ... Read more

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    Doing Development Research is a comprehensive introduction to research in development studies, that provides thorough training for anyone carrying out research in developing countries. It brings together experts with extensive experience of overseas research, presenting an interdisciplinary guide to the core methodologies.Informed by years of research experience, Doing Development Research draws ... Read more

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