Description
This handbook brings together the various emergent strands of research at the intersection between the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Education. In doing so, it provides the first extensive state-of-the-art reference for this sub-field, both capturing cutting-edge research and pointing towards important new directions. This volume offers high-quality chapters combining theoretical work with original empirical research using a range of perspectives and methodologies. As such, it is a landmark publication and reference point for both STS and Education research.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Science and technology studies in education.- Part 1 Theories, Perspectives and Approaches in the Making.- Moving in, between and through ANT: Translating and being translated.- Epistemic cultures and lifeworlds: understanding knowledge generation in comparative education.- The intelligent assessment and global mobility: A socio-cultural-material perspective on a high-stakes English language test.- Aftermath of 1:1 assemblages: A transformation journey of sociotechnical imaginaries in three Latin American programs.- Science and technology studies beyond the digital.- Part 2 History of Knowledge and Technologies in Education.- Photographing, knowing, governing: The introduction of photography in school management practices in Argentina and Mexico (1890-1950).- Technologies of objectivity: Laboratory research in early 20th century experimental pedagogy.- Discriminating by design: How techniques act as sleeping police in classifying underrepresented groups.- Catching the genius: Gifted and talented education in China from the perspective of the history of knowledge and technology.- From mundane reality to a bright future? Technopedagogical visions of computing and their historical configurations.- STS and educational research, 1960s and present.- Part 3 Authority, Expertise and Metrics in Education.- Economic expertise and economic modelling in education: Modelling as inscription, valuation and topological contraction.- Indexability: The citeable scientific author-ity in the making.- Data visualisations and teachersâ expertise: Caring for students in a world of automated assessment.- The sociotechnical accomplishment of expertise; or, what can a cycle techniciansâ workshop tell us about knowing stuff? A Latourian ethnography.- Part 4 Regimes of Knowledge Valuation.- How is the Swedish Scholastic Assessment Test (SweSAT) made valid? A review of its construction and inscriptions from an STS perspective.- Standardised regimes: Government examinations and the Middle Eastern Mandate.- âSuch perfect toolsâ? The rise of psychometric testing in Indian higher education during the 1960s.- Part 5 Politics and More-Than-Human Governance.- AI and education: A more-than-human approach to education governance.- Materialities of governance in the education field.- Education, school and âalterlifeâ in the Anthropocene.- Navigating infrastructures in higher education: Impermanence, boundaries, promises and emerging alternatives.- Part 6 STS, Education and Digital Technologies.- Predictive analytics in education: Between promise and practicality.- The dream of digital futures: Critical perspectives on sociotechnical imaginaries in higher education digital policy.- Data flows in education: Infrastructure, power and practice.- Performativity as a generative concept and a sensibility to the material: Understanding the VLE through the mangle of practice lens.- STS and participatory Edtech (re-)design.
