VOLUME 10(1) • 2022
Challenging EdTech: Towards a More Inclusive, Accessible and Purposeful Version of EdTech
ABSTRACT. The integration of technology in education has received much attention throughout recent years. Many argue that technology can be packaged as a product to improve learning outcomes, make education more cost-efficient, and enhance education retention and access, among other potential outcom..
Open Schools: Will It Be Different This Time?
ABSTRACT. Schools are complex, adaptive systems (CAS) (Davis & Sumara, 2006) that engage in an iterative process of reform/change, which sometimes repeats itself after a generation or two (Cuban, 1984; Sadovnik, Cookson, & Semel, 2006). For example, the autonomous teacher in the egg-crate cl..
Assessment Dialogues in Mentoring in Norwegian Teacher Education: Tensions between Different Forms of Knowledge
ABSTRACT. As part of the intention to create a research-based teacher education that is close to the practice, collaboration between university and practice is gaining more attention in teacher education. In Norway, a triad collaboration between school-based mentors, university-based mentors, and me..
Establishing the Merger of a Tertiary Education System in Public Discourse: The Case of the New Zealand Institute of Skills and Technology
ABSTRACT. The Reform of Vocational Education (RoVE) is a large-scale transformation of the tertiary education system in New Zealand launched in 2018. Under RoVE, all existing Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics have been amalgamated to form a single nationwide institution: the New Zealand Inst..
Unravelling Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT): Leontiev’s and Engeström’s Approaches to Activity Theory
ABSTRACT. Activity theory has long been an influential framework in the field of education. However, its theoretical concepts are not easily grasped by scholars, mainly due to difficulties in translation from the original Russian works, the complexity of these concepts and multiple versions embedded..
The Performativity of Algorithmic Trading: The Epistemology of Flash Crashes
ABSTRACT. In Science and Technology Studies, performativity has been debated and used to question economic governance, the role of explicitness, the creation of signification and the enactment of theories, investigating the influence of language on social reality. Based on Wittgenstein’s concept of ..
Compassion as Our Origin: Examining a Kyoto School Approach
ABSTRACT. Rapid advancement in science and technology has brought us not only accessibility and comfort but also serious environmental problems and conflicts resulting from close interactions of people with different modes of thinking. Thus, suffering and conflicts are, in many ways, no longer confi..
If Metaphysics Is to Have a Future
ABSTRACT. If metaphysics is to have a future, then ontology – the traditional teaching and learning of the question of the meaning of being – must be suspended: being cannot simply mean essence or existence, presence or absence, or some combination thereof. Rather, being’s way of being – neither pre..