Front Cover; Emerging Approaches to Educational Research; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Why sociomateriality in education? An introduction; 2 Emergence and perturbation: understanding complexity theory; 3 Complexity theory in educational research; 4 Contradiction and expansion: understanding cultural historical activity theory; 5 Cultural historical activity theory in educational research; 6 Translation and network effects: understanding actor-network theory; 7 Actor-network theory in educational research; 8 Spatiality and temporality: understanding cultural geography. and 9 Spatial theory in educational research10 Sociomaterial approaches: contributions and issues for educational research; Bibliography; Index.
Summary:
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 into the canons of educational research, and in more recent years, the influence of the work of Deleuze and Guattari has also grown. This work has proved controversial both in the challenges it has ra.
