Engaging with Actor-Network Theory as a Methodology in Medica... - 9780367332242

Taylor & Francis

Engaging with Actor-Network Theory as a Methodology in Medical Education ResearchAuthor(s): Bethan Mitchell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367332242, 978-0367332242\nSynopsis\nThis book outlines a methodology based on actor-network theory (ANT) and praxiography and applies this to the field of medical education. Drawn from a detailed account of practice in a medical setting, this book shows how researchers in education and medical education can learn to work with ANT approaches and attune to different insights in practice.\n\nThe book gives a detailed account of what actor-network theory can bring to research, through the investigation of social and material networks. The philosophical underpinnings of actor-network theory are presented as the basis of this emerging methodology, through an exploration of learning as disruption, practice as human and material assemblages, and power as regulated difference in wor.