Researching Education Through Actor-Network Theory
Researching Education Through Actor-Network Theory

Summary/Abstract: This article presents Actor-Network Theory and its application in researching the education system in terms of introduction of information communication technologies, education standards, and education reforms. Through a desk study, it highlights the theoretical basis through which the process of reforming education is analysed, as well as the impact of standards on the curriculum. The main conclusions are that when considering the introduction of technologies in the educational process, it is of particular importance to perceive them as symmetrical actors within the network that possess agency similarly to human actors. Networks, their constant dissolution, formation of new networks and change, are a prerequisite for the analysis of the reforms taking place in any system, in particular in the education system. Standards should not be understood as a stable unchanging basis through which to assess students, but rather as fluid and changeable as the network they are part of.

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