Academic domains as political battlegrounds: A global enquiry by 99 academics in the fields of education and technology

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0266666916646415" target="_blank" >http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0266666916646415</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266666916646415" target="_blank" >10.1177/0266666916646415</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Academic domains as political battlegrounds: A global enquiry by 99 academics in the fields of education and technology

Original language description

This article theorizes the functional relationship between the human components (i.e., scholars) and non-human components (i.e., structural configurations) of academic domains. It is organized around the following question: in what ways have scholars formed and been formed by the structural configurations of their academic domain? The article uses as a case study the academic domain of education and technology toexamine this question. Its authorship approach is innovative, with a worldwide collection of academics (99 authors) collaborating to address the proposed question based on their reflections on daily social and academic practices. This collaboration followed a three-round process of contributions via email. Analysis of these scholars? reflective accounts was carried out, and a theoretical proposition was established from this analysis. The proposition is of a mutual (yet not necessarily balanced) power (and therefore political) relationship between the human and non-human constituents of an academic realm, with the two shaping one another. One implication of this proposition is that these non-human elements exist as political 'actors',just like their human counterparts, having 'agency' - which they exercise over humans. This turns academic domains into political (functional or dysfunctional) 'battlefields' wherein both humans and non-humans engage in political activities and actions that form the identity of the academic domain.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50300 - Education

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Information Development

ISSN

0266-6669

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

270-288

UT code for WoS article

000401148100005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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