scholarly journals A teoria ator-rede em uma sequência didática para discussão do tema ecossistemas e suas transformações

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-188
Author(s):  
Fernanda Costa dos Santos Dressler ◽  
Fábio Augusto Rodrigues e Silva ◽  
Danilo Seithi Kato
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Educational Method ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Technological Artifacts ◽  
Material Practice ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Belo Horizonte

Resumo: Este estudo se fundamentou na teoria ator-rede e investigou processos de ensino e aprendizagem no 6º ano do Ensino Fundamental de uma escola pública em Belo Horizonte a partir de uma sequência didática que discute sobre ecossistemas e suas transformações. Tomamos esse processo como uma prática sociomaterial em que a aprendizagem decorre de um processo de associação entre humanos, artefatos naturais e tecnológicos construídos por meio de uma rede de múltiplos fatos, objetos e pessoas e nos dedicamos a responder: Como o conhecimento sobre o ecossistema e suas transformações é mobilizado por meio de um conjunto de atividades em uma sequência didática, das quais se destaca uma trilha ecológica? Em nossos resultados, constatamos que as atividades possibilitaram uma experiência que abarca aspectos e assuntos que envolvam o sujeito e seu entorno, caracterizado-se como uma “aprendizagem estética”, o que propicia uma educação científica que amplia percepções sobre ambiente dos estudantes.Palavras-chave: Aprendizagem Estética; Teoria Ator-Rede; Ensino Fundamental II. The actor-network theory in a didactic sequence for discussion of the theme ecosystems and their transformationsAbstract: This research consists of a study based on the actor-network theory to investigate the teaching and learning processes with 6th-grade students from a public school in Belo Horizonte from a didactic sequence that discusses ecosystems and their transformations. We adopted this educational method as a socio-material practice in which learning results from a process of association between humans, natural and technological artifacts built through a network of multiple facts, objects, and people. From this direction, we dedicate ourselves to answer: How is knowledge about the ecosystem and its transformations mobilized through a set of activities in a didactic sequence, of which an ecological trail stands out? In our results, we found that the didactic sequence enabled an experience that encompasses aspects and subjects that involve the subject and his surroundings, characterized as “aesthetic learning”, which provides a scientific education that expands students' perceptions about the environment.Keywords: Learning Aesthetic; Actor-Network Theory; Elementary School. 

Talking about Associations and Descriptions or a Short Story about Associology

2017 ◽  
pp. 220-233
Author(s):  
Beate Ochsner
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Agency And Structure

In 1999, Bruno Latour advocated for “abandoning what was wrong with ANT, that is ‘actor,' ‘network,' ‘theory' without forgetting the hyphen.” However, it seems that the “hyphen,” which brings with it the operation of hyphenating or connecting, was abandoned too quickly. If one investigates what something is by asking what it is meant as well as how it emerges, by (re-)tracing the strategy in materials in situated practices and sets of relations, and, by bypassing the distinction between agency and structure, one shifts from studying “what causes what” to describing “how things happen.” This perspective not only makes it necessary for us to clarify the changing positions and displacements of human and non-human actors in the assemblage, but, also question the role (the enrolment) of the researcher him/herself: What kind of “relation” connects the researcher to his/her research and associates him/her with the subject, how to prevent (or not) his/her own involvement, and, to what degree s/he ignores the relationality of his/her writing in a “sociology of association?”

scholarly journals OPENING BLACK BOXES OF DISRUPTIVE INNOVATIONS: CONTROVERSIES INVOLVING UBER IN BELO HORIZONTE

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
KELLY C. VIEIRA ◽  
ANDRÉ L. PAIVA ◽  
VALDERÍ C. ALCÂNTARA ◽  
DANIEL C. REZENDE
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Disruptive Technology ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Multiple Realities ◽  
Multiple Dimensions ◽  
Black Boxes ◽  
New Business ◽  
Belo Horizonte

ABSTRACT Purpose: This article aims to understand the controversies present from the insertion of a disruptive technology in a new business model, Uber, in the urban mobility market of Belo Horizonte-MG. Originality/value: The actor-network theory allows us to describe innovation as technical and social, as well as to identify the sociomaterialities that enact and multiple realities from controversies in dispute. The proposal is original in investigating how a disruptive innovation is built as a “fact”, accompanying its stabilization processes. Design/methodology/approach: The research was operationalized from the actor-network theory itself, using cartography to follow the actors in their controversies. The data came mainly from newspapers, postings on social networks and legal materials accessed through the internet (from December 2014 to July 2017). For the presentation of the results, the mandala of actors who dispute positions in controversies and the hierarchical tree of the controversies were used. Findings: The arrangement was marked by several controversies that deal with the legitimacy of the application, the labor relations established by the innovation and the quality of the services provided, each supported by different actors, positions and arguments. Four types of technology identified in this arrangement were identified: 1. user technology; 2. service provision; 3. economic issues; and 4. Uber driver. It is understood, therefore, that the technology has multiple dimensions and is enacted of different forms, and that this arrangement has not yet stabilized.

Reassembling the Problem of the Under-Representation of Girls in IT Courses

2011 ◽  
pp. 208-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonie Rowan ◽  
Chris Bigum
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Australian Research Council ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Key Questions

The percentages of girls in developing countries undertaking information technology subjects in the post-compulsory years of education has remained persistently low: often under 25%. This is despite the fact that this particular phenomenon has been the subject of sustained international enquiry for at least three decades. This article investigates data collected during an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant project (2005-2007) that aimed to identify some of the contemporary reasons for this under-representation in Australian schools. The original phases of data collection proceeded from the belief that there was a clear and agreed understanding that the low numbers of girls was a problem worthy of analysis. As the project evolved, however, significant differences between the researchers’ perception of the underrepresentation and the participants’ views about the same issue. In this paper we make use of actor-network theory to ask key questions about the extent to which the enrolment of girls in IT is indeed ‘a problem’.

The Subject of Media Studies

2017 ◽  
pp. 51-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joost van Loon
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Transcendental Phenomenology ◽  
Free Association ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Generalized Symmetry ◽  
The Subject

On the basis of the banal example of the rise of “the selfie”, this chapter critically considers the issue of the Subjects of (and in) Media Studies and argues that the reason why Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has thus far not been widely accepted within this field has been its adherence to the Principles of Generalized Symmetry and Free Association. That is to say: ANT categorically refuses subsuming properties of entities to abstractions such as nature, society or technology. On the contrary, Media Studies have doggedly adhered to privileging “the Human” as its subject of analysis. On the basis of a critique of transcendental phenomenology, which has been specified by a critical discussion of McLuhan's famous edict “media are extensions of man”, the chapter exposes the empirical fallacy of granting the human subject a status of exception and instead proposes an empirical metaphysics based on ‘prehension' as an alternative. This, it is argued, will enable forms of media analyses that can be both radically empirical and politically engaged.

scholarly journals A New Sujet/Subject for Art Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-145
Author(s):  
Torsten Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Art Education ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Internet Culture ◽  
Human Individual ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theories Of The Subject

AbstractFor some years now, fundamental ideas of newer theoretical trends in the context of Actor Network Theory have been leaking into the minds of that generation of (post-internet) artists who no longer regard the radical change in the socio-technical conditions of digital media cultures as something special or new. These trends are also leaking into the theories of the subject and thus also into the theory(s) of art education. This coincides with the assumption that the humanistic conception of the human individual as a subject, and the associated understanding of education in modernity, no longer matches neither with the artistic practices based on collaborative networked socio-technical processes that can be observed in the post-internet culture. Therefore, changing mediality leads to changing subjectivity.

Authenticity in Online Religion

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Yoe Tan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Subject

In this article, the subject of online religion and how it can be researched is discussed. The dynamics of religious experience, authority, communication and more is subject of much discussion both in academia and religious discourses primarily because of the seemingly immaterial realm that is cyberspace. This article examines unique aspects of the nature of online religion and pays particular attention to the fluidity of online/offline relations and the subject of “authenticity” in the realm of online religion. Following from that is the discussion of how actor-network theory (ANT), first developed by Bruno Latour, can be deployed as a useful methodological approach to researching online religion, and to navigate potentially deterministic and oppositional discourses of online/offline relations.

Construction of innovation and entrepreneurship teaching scene under the background of numeral intelligence: Based on the theory of actor-network

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092110134
Author(s):  
Shiyong Yang ◽  
Zhiyang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Education Innovation ◽  
Translation Mechanism ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

With the continuous deepening of innovation and entrepreneurship education, innovation and entrepreneurship education is faced with the problem of upgrading. The construction of the innovation and entrepreneurship teaching scene is the key to solving “teaching and learning” in the process of upgrading. Based on the translation mechanism of actor-network theory, this paper probes into the three paths of “structure scene, classroom teaching scene and learning mode” to construct the teaching scene of innovation and entrepreneurship, which is a new path to explore the innovation and reform of innovation and entrepreneurship teaching by integrating numeral intelligence technology.

Key Success Factors of Using Social Media as a Learning Tool

2017 ◽  
pp. 267-282
Author(s):  
Alexander K. Kofinas ◽  
Abdallah Al-Shawakbeh ◽  
Andriew S. Lim
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Key Success Factors

Students are dedicated and innovative users of Social Media; in the context of Higher Education they use such media in a pragmatic fashion to enhance their learning. Higher Education institutions are thus in a position to facilitate their students' learning by embedding Social Media in their teaching and learning pedagogy. This chapter will discuss the Key Success Factors of using Social Media as a coordinating, managing, and learning tool to enhance students' education in the context of Higher Education. The Key Success Factors are mapped along the communication and activity flows of the student's study enterprise as viewed from an Actor-Network Theory lenses.

Authenticity in Online Religion

2019 ◽  
pp. 540-551
Author(s):  
Meng Yoe Tan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Subject

In this article, the subject of online religion and how it can be researched is discussed. The dynamics of religious experience, authority, communication and more is subject of much discussion both in academia and religious discourses primarily because of the seemingly immaterial realm that is cyberspace. This article examines unique aspects of the nature of online religion and pays particular attention to the fluidity of online/offline relations and the subject of “authenticity” in the realm of online religion. Following from that is the discussion of how actor-network theory (ANT), first developed by Bruno Latour, can be deployed as a useful methodological approach to researching online religion, and to navigate potentially deterministic and oppositional discourses of online/offline relations.

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