Circulation of Authorisations in the Classroom: A Socio-Material Process
| Autor: | Estrid Sørensen, Nana Benjaminsen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Health (social science) Sociology and Political Science Multimedia business.industry Process (engineering) Actor–network theory School classroom Biomedical Engineering Public relations computer.software_genre History and Philosophy of Science Virtual learning environment Circulation (currency) Sociology business computer Biotechnology |
| Zdroj: | Science as Culture. 20:433-453 |
| ISSN: | 1470-1189 0950-5431 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09505431.2011.605922 |
| Popis: | Authority in educational settings is generally taken to belong to the teacher—to reside inside a human. At the same time, the use of new technology in schools is said to challenge authority. How is authority produced and maintained in classrooms not just through engagement among humans, but also through engagements between humans and non-human elements? In a computer-enhanced primary school classroom where the construction-based learning platform Lego Robolab is used, authority is achieved in a close coordination of humans and materials. Authorisations are made available through socio-material coordination: authority is generated as an ongoing interactive process through which social as well as material participants grant each other authority. Authority is achieved though a simultaneously fragile and extensively entangled circulation of authorisations among children, teachers and Lego Robolab. However, the presence of these particular actors is not a sufficient condition for authority to emerge. Emotions ... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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