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Academic domains as political battlegrounds : a global enquiry by 99 academics in the fields of education and technology
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(2017) Academic domains as political battlegrounds : a global enquiry by 99 academics in the fields of education and technology. Information Development, 33 (3). pp. 270-288. doi:10.1177/0266666916646415 ISSN 0266-6669.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266666916646415
Abstract
This article theorizes the functional relationship between the human components (i.e., scholars) and non-human components (i.e., structural configurations) of academic domains. It is organized around the following question: in what ways have scholars formed and been formed by the structural configurations of their academic domain? The article uses as a case study the academic domain of education and technology to examine this question. Its authorship approach is innovative, with a worldwide collection of academics (99 authors) collaborating to address the proposed question based on their reflections on daily social and academic practices. This collaboration followed a three-round process of contributions via email. Analysis of these scholars’ reflective accounts was carried out, and a theoretical proposition was established from this analysis. The proposition is of a mutual (yet not necessarily balanced) power (and therefore political) relationship between the human and non-human constituents of an academic realm, with the two shaping one another. One implication of this proposition is that these non-human elements exist as political ‘actors’, just like their human counterparts, having ‘agency’ – which they exercise over humans. This turns academic domains into political (functional or dysfunctional) ‘battlefields’ wherein both humans and non-humans engage in political activities and actions that form the identity of the academic domain.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LC Special aspects of education |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Educational technology, Education--Experimental methods | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Information Development | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0266-6669 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 June 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 33 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Number of Pages: | 62 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 270-288 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0266666916646415 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 May 2016 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 August 2016 |
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