Using an analysis of learning by a case study comparison of two undergraduate courses at a United States University, Nespor examines the way in which education and power merge in physics and management. Through this study of politics and practices of knowledge, he explains how students, once accepted on these courses, are facilitated on a path to power; physics and management being core disciplines in modern society. Taking strands from constructivist psychology, post-modern geography, actor-network theory and feminist sociology, this book develops a theoretical language for analysing the production and use of knowledge. He puts forward the idea that learning, usually viewed as a process of individual minds and groups in face-to-face interaction, is actually a process of activities organised across space and time and how organisations of space and time are produced in social practice. Within this context educational courses are viewed as networks of a larger whole, and individual courses are points in the network which link a wider relationship by way of texts, tasks and social practices intersecting with them. The book shows how students enrolled on such courses automatically become part of a network of power and knowledge.
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My strategy in this chapter will be to dismantle a network of assumptions about 'knowledge' and 'learning' by depicting educational practice and research as revolving around a simple question: how is activity in one setting (such as a classroom) related to activity in settings distant in space and time (other classrooms or workplaces)? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
representational organizations, secondary science education, representational productions, disciplinary practitioners, distributed actors, representational technologies, physics program, disciplinary networks, management students, physics students, physics education, corporate space, undergraduate physics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Management Student Association, Physics Survey Committee, Project Physics New!
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My strategy in this chapter will be to dismantle a network of assumptions about 'knowledge' and 'learning' by depicting educational practice and research as revolving around a simple question: how is activity in one setting (such as a classroom) related to activity in settings distant in space and time (other classrooms or workplaces)? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
representational organizations, secondary science education, representational productions, disciplinary practitioners, distributed actors, representational technologies, physics program, disciplinary networks, management students, physics students, physics education, corporate space, undergraduate physics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Management Student Association, Physics Survey Committee, Project Physics New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau in Back Matter
- Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America by John Langston Gwaltney in Back Matter
- In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development by Carol Gilligan in Back Matter
- Modern Physics (Wse) by Aip in Back Matter
- Conflict Talk: Sociolinguistic Investigations of Arguments in Conversations by Allen D. Grimshaw in Back Matter
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- Women's Science: Learning and Succeeding from the Margins by Margaret A. Eisenhart on page 51
- Distributed Learning: Social and Cultural Approaches to Practice by Mary R. Lea on page 209
- The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education by Eric Margolis in Back Matter
- The Hidden Curriculum in Higher Education by Eric Margolis in Back Matter
- Empathetic Education: An Ecological Perspective on Educational Knowledge (Knowledge, Identity & School Life) by Mathew C. Cotton in Front Matter
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