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Exploring Education through Actor-Network Theory: Insights from Tara Fenwick

This work delves into Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as applied to education, framed by Tara Fenwick of the University of Stirling. It investigates how various actors—people, tools, and technologies—interact and influence each other's roles within educational settings. The study raises critical questions about the dynamics of these networks, including issues of inclusion and exclusion, the emergence of new practices, and the durability of educational structures. By examining moments of translation within networks, we uncover how relationships shape educational realities and knowledge.

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Exploring Education through Actor-Network Theory: Insights from Tara Fenwick

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  1. (un) Doing Education with Actor Network Theory Tara Fenwick University of Stirling

  2. ….. a disparate set of tools, sensibilities and methods of analysis that treat everything in the social and natural worlds as a continuously generated effect of the webs of relations within which they are located. It assumes that nothing has reality or form outside the enactment of those relations. Law, 2007

  3. Educators ANT-ing …. How do people, tools, technologies, texts move and become combined? What happens when they are hooked up with other networks? How do human and nonhuman materials change in their intra-connections? What kinds of forces, practices and knowledges emerge? Who/ what gets excluded?

  4. How does a network come into being?? Moments of “translation”: -framing particular problem -enlisting actors -shaping relations, behaviors -mobilizing whole network

  5. Once mobilized, actor-network becomes a “black box” Negotiations of building the network are forgotten

  6. ANT Problems heroic actor focus on powerful, visible actors flat networks focus on ‘ordering’ practices totalized representations (incl the ‘Other’) infinity of networks implies stable, durable realities re-presents other times/places with tools of the present ‘moments of translation’ became a fixed model

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