Students as actors in school networks. (2015) English version of ISSN: 2007-2686 (original) (raw)
In this article I pretend to expound some of the ideas originating from the Actornetwork theory (ANT) that have been utilized in education by anthropologist Jan Nespor, presently professor in the Ohio State University. In his work he studies the trajectory of students throughout their professional development, their career paths in research within college institutions and the extensive trajectories of grade school students. As an anthropologist he utilizes an ethnographic approach to research as conceived within the field of Science Studies, thus making his descriptions not only abound in detail but also in thorough analysis that transcends the macro-micro levels and the temporal dimension; it transfers the contributions of scientific practice studies to the student practice studies in academia; it explains how the transit of students through academic networks contributes to the redefinition of space, time, identity and the way in which knowledge constituted by school contents is displaced by students and teachers through the objects that represent them.
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