33.065 - Materiality in Educational (Inter)action: Same Concern, Different Approaches

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Despite the fact that everyday educational activity is critically shaped through material elements, materiality has been largely underestimated within educational research. For a long time, research in education has retained a traditionally human-centered focus in which educational practices were conceptualized as being essentially social. This symposium wants to shift away from human-centered and social assumptions by focusing on how materiality equally matters in understanding educational (inter)actions. By bringing together scholars from various theoretical and methodological traditions who acknowledge a sensitivity to the material features of educational practices, this symposium aims to contribute to a more refined understanding of the insights that may be yielded and the challenges that may be encountered when drawing attention to the role of “materiality”.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Organizational Theory

Chair

• Virginie Marz, University of Amsterdam

Papers

• Artifacts as Actors in Educational Innovation: Using Data to Facilitate the Transition From Primary to Secondary School - Virginie Marz, University of Amsterdam; Karen Vermeir, University of Leuven; Geert Kelchtermans, University of Leuven

• On the Composition of Academic Work in Digital Times: An Atlas of Academic Practice - Mathias Decuypere, K.U. Leuven; Maarten Simons, University of Leuven

• Building From Instructional Tools: The Role of Communicative Actions in Negotiating New Knowledge, Values, and Beliefs About Practice - Eliane Dulude, Université de Montréal

• Vehicles of Logics: The Role of Policy Documents and Instructional Materials in Reform - Sarah L. Woulfin, University of Connecticut

Discussant

• James P. Spillane, Northwestern University