ERIC Number: EJ1100881
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Publication Date: 2016
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Interpreting the Circulation of Educational Discourse across Space: Searching for New Vocabularies
Beech, Jason; Artopoulos, Alejandro
Globalisation, Societies and Education, v14 n2 p251-271 2016
This article argues that certain established vocabularies that are used to interpret the circulation of educational discourse and its transformation in different settings have significant limitations to capture the complexity inherent to new geographies of power/knowledge in education and that, consequently, we need to develop new concepts to analyse the movement of educational discourses across space. After a critique of concepts such as "transfer" and "policy borrowing", we offer an alternative kind of approach by using Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to briefly analyse Conectar Igualdad, a program in Argentina that distributes one computer per student in secondary schools. It will be shown how the use ANT can make certain connections visible that would not be so noticeable using the established vocabularies discussed above.
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Social Theories, Social Networks, Comparative Education, Technology Transfer, Global Approach, Educational Policy, Power Structure, Foreign Countries, Computer Uses in Education, Secondary Schools
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Argentina
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