Outputs (2)

A new mode of control: an actor–network theory account of effects of power and agency in establishing education policy (2024)
Journal Article
Unsworth, R. (2024). A new mode of control: an actor–network theory account of effects of power and agency in establishing education policy. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 56(1), 54-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2023.2258827

In this paper, I argue that power promised to England’s teachers by the 2010 ‘Importance of Teaching’ white paper has rather played out as a reformulation of methods of policymaking to more indirect modes of government control. I trace the growth of... Read More about A new mode of control: an actor–network theory account of effects of power and agency in establishing education policy.

Teaching through the cloud: An ethnography of the role of cloud‐based collaborative technologies in the formation of teachers' classroom practices (2023)
Journal Article
Unsworth, R. (2023). Teaching through the cloud: An ethnography of the role of cloud‐based collaborative technologies in the formation of teachers' classroom practices. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12471

Through an examination of ethnographic fieldwork data, this paper explores the ways in which cloud-based collaborative technologies created by Google mediate (Latour 1994) teachers' discussions around, agreement of and enactments of their classroom p... Read More about Teaching through the cloud: An ethnography of the role of cloud‐based collaborative technologies in the formation of teachers' classroom practices.