Devices and Educational Change

Autor/in	Nespor, Jan
Titel	Devices and Educational Change
Quelle	In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 43 (2011), S.15-37 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1857
DOI	10.1111/j.1469-5812.2009.00611.x
Schlagwörter	Organizational Change; Educational Change; Interactive Video; Computer Assisted Instruction; Assistive Technology; Preschool Children; Mental Retardation; Self Concept; Theories; Teaching Methods; Higher Education; Intelligence + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Organisationswandel; Bildungsreform; Interaktives Video; Computer based training; Computerunterstützter Unterricht; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Geistige Behinderung; Selbstkonzept; Theory; Theorie; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Intelligenz; Klugheit
Abstract	This paper uses Actor Network Theory to examine two cases of device-mediated educational change, one involving a computer-assisted interactive video module that provided a half-hour of instruction for a university course, the other an assistive communication device that proved a supposedly retarded pre-school child to be intelligent. The paper explores how device construction instigated by middle-level organizational workers can ramify into organizational change, and extends Actor Network theory by augmenting some of its conceptual tools. I argue that the organizational change processes initiated by work on the devices played out in non-linear ways across the decades-long careers of their makers, and that to understand them we not only have to look across such extended time frames, but must also consider how agency and identity positions emerge and shift over time through the mediation of devices. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10