Having an appreciation for social materiality and the importance of educational things, I continue to be interested in Actor-network theory (ANT) as a methodology in exploring my educational-technological questions. Thanks to my doctoral supervisor (Stephen Petrina @ UBC), I was introduced to ANT and it remains a primary interest for me.
I have written a book chapter, Lee 2019 Assembling technology teacher education: Translating technological skills into educational praxis in Social Theory for Teacher Education Research. Here’s a snippet:
I present how ANT was used to research the experience of preservice teachers in a prescribed teacher education program. These preservice teachers were aiming to become K-12 teachers teaching in the area of technology education. Along with my specific research context, I also consider how ANT can be used to examine the broader issues in teacher education. Furthermore, I present some limits of ANT; for example, what it does not investigate in research and what it cannot explicate or resolve in education. These limits, however, do not diminish the potentiality of ANT and what it can offer educational researchers. Instead, ANT is best employed as an ethno-methodology, accounting for the social, material, and complexity of understanding educational phenomena (pp. 69-70).
A working bibliography
Callon, M. (1986a), “Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fishermen of St Brieuc Bay,” in J. Law (ed.), Power, Action and Belief: A New Sociology of Knowledge?, 196–233, London: Routledge.
Callon, M. (1986b), “The Sociology of an Actor-Network: The Case of the Electric Vehicle,” in M. Callon, J. Law, and A. Rip (eds.), Mapping the Dynamics of Science and Technology: Sociology of Science in the Real World, 19–34, London: MacMillan.
Callon, M. (1987), “Society in the Making: The Study of Technology as a Tool for Sociological Analysis,” in W. Bijker, T. Hughes, and T. Pinch (eds.), The Social Construction of Technological Systems, 83–119, Cambridge: MIT Press.
Callon, M. (1991), A Sociology of Monsters: Essays on Power, Technology and Domination, London: Routledge.
Callon, M., and B. Latour (1981), “Unscrewing the Big Leviathan: How Actors Macro-Structure Reality and How Sociologists Help Them to Do So,” in K. Knorr-Cetina and A. V. Cicourel (eds.), Advances in Social Theory and Methodology: Toward an Integration of Micro- and Macro-Sociologies, 277–303, New York: Routledge.
Callon, M., and J. Law (1997), “After the Individual in Society: Lessons on Collectivity from Science, Technology and Society,” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 22(2): 165–82.
Callon, M., J. Law, and A. Rip (1986), Mapping the Dynamics of Science and Technology, London: MacMillan.
Edwards, R. (2002), “Mobilizing Lifelong Learning: Governmentality in Educational Practices,” Journal of Education Policy, 17 (3): 353–65.
Fenwick, T., and R. Edwards (2010), Actor-Network Theory and Education, London:Routledge.
Fenwick, T., and R. Edwards (2012), Researching Education through Actor-Network Theory, Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Frankham, J. (2006), “Network Utopias and Alternative Entanglements for Educational Research and Practice,” Journal of Education Policy, 21 (6): 661–77.
Harman, G. (2007), “The Importance of Bruno Latour for Philosophy,” Cultural Studies Review, 13 (1): 31–49.
Harman, G. (2009), Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics, Melbourne: re.press.
Latour, B. (1987), Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Latour, B. (1988), “The Politics of Explanation: An Alternative”, in S. Woolgar (ed.), Knowledge and Reflexivity, New Frontiers in the Sociology of Knowledge, 155–77, London: Sage.
Latour, B. (1993). We Have Never Been Modern, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Latour, B. (1999). “On recalling ANT,” The Sociological Review, 47 (s1): 15–25.
Latour, B. (2005a), Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, New York: Oxford University Press.
Latour, B. (2005b). “From Realpolitik to Dingpolitik or How to Make Things Public,” in B. Latour and P. Wiebel (eds.), Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, 4–31, Cambridge: MIT Press.
Latour, B., P. Maunguin, and G. Teil (1992), “A Note on Socio-Technical Graphs,” Social Studies of Science, 22 (1): 33–57.
Law, J. (1988), “The Anatomy of a Socio-Technical Struggle: The Design of the TSR 2,” in B. Elliott (ed.), Technology and Social Process, 44–69, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Law, J. (1999), “After ANT: Complexity, Naming and Topology,” in J. Law and J. Hassard (eds.), Actor Network Theory and After, 1–14, Oxford: Blackwell.
Law, J. (2004), After Method: Mess in Social Science Research, New York: Routledge.
Law, J. (2009), “Actor Network Theory and Material Semiotics,” in B. S. Turner (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, 141–58, Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Law, J., and J. Hassard, eds. (1999), Actor Network Theory and After, Oxford: Blackwell.
Leander, K. M., and J. Lovvorn (2006), “Literacy Networks: Following the Circulation of Texts, Bodies, and Objects in the Schooling and Online Gaming of One Youth,” Cognition and Instruction, 24 (3): 291–340.
Miller, A. S. (2013), Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology, New York: Fordham University Press.
Mol, A. (2002), The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice, Durham: Duke University Press.
Mol, A. (2010), “Actor-Network Theory: Sensitive Terms and Enduring Tensions,” Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 50 (1): 253–69.
Moreno, J. L., and H. Jennings (1938), “Statistics of Social Configurations,” Sociometry, 1 (3/4): 342–74.
Murdoch, J. (2006), Post-Structuralist Geography: A Guide to Relational Space, London: Sage.
Nespor, J. (1994), Knowledge in Motion: Space, Time, and Curriculum in Undergraduate Physics and Management, London: Falmer Press.
Oppenheim, R. (2007), “Actor-Network Theory and Anthropology after Science, Technology, and Society,” Anthropological Theory, 7 (4): 471–93.
Saito, H. (2011), “An Actor-Network Theory of Cosmopolitanism,” Sociological Theory, 29 (2): 124–49.
Waltz, S. B. (2006), “Nonhumans Unbound: Actor-Network Theory and the Reconsideration of ‘Things’ in Educational Foundations,” Journal of Educational Foundations, 20 (3/4): 51–68.
Wright, S., and G. Parchoma (2011), “Technologies for Learning? An Actor-Network Theory Critique of ‘Affordances’ in Research on Mobile Learning,” Research in Learning Technology, 19 (3): 247–58.