Perrotta, C orcid.org/0000-0003-3572-0844, Bailey, C orcid.org/0000-0003-1969-5001 and Garside, C (2018) Culture, technology and local networks: towards a sociology of ‘making’ in education. Cambridge Journal of Education, 48 (5). pp. 553-569. ISSN 0305-764X
Abstract
This article is about ‘making’ in education. Often associated with software programming (as in ‘digital making’), making can also involve creating or modifying physical technological artefacts. In this paper, making is examined as a phenomenon that occurs at the intersection of culture, the economy, technology and education. The focus is not on the effects on cognitive gains or motivations, but on locating making in a social, historical and economic context. Making is also described as a form of ‘material connotation’, where connotation refers to the process through which the technical structure of artefacts is altered by culture and society. In the second part of the paper, the theoretical discussion is complemented by a case study in which making is described as a networked phenomenon where technology companies, consultants, volunteers, schools, and students were all implicated in turning a nebulous set of practices and discourses into an educational reality.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Cambridge Journal of Education on 27 Sep 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0305764X.2017.1375459. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Making, fabrication, digital technology, materiality |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Society for Educational Studies Not Known |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 28 Sep 2017 08:48 |
Last Modified: | 27 Mar 2019 01:40 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/0305764X.2017.1375459 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:121772 |