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Science and Technology Studies: Exploring the Knowledge Base [PDF]

Science and Technology Studies (STS) is one of a number of new research fields to emerge over the last four or five decades. This paper attempts to identify its core academic contributions using the references that are most cited by the authors of ...
Paul Nightingale, Ben Martin, Alfredo Yegros-Yegros   +2 more
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The Sociology of Translation and the Politics of Sustainability

This book uses sustainability to explore the interfaces between translation studies, the cultural history of knowledge, and Science and Technology studies (STS).

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Teacher‐makers and teacher‐breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses empirical data from a longitudinal qualitative study conducted with aspirant teachers in England to propose (re)definitions of the concepts of ‘status’ and ‘safety’ as a framework with which to understand and improve teacher recruitment.
Emily MacLeod
wiley   +1 more source

Science, European Modernity, and in J.P.S. Uberoi’s Writings: An Intervention in Postcolonial Sociology and Science and Technology Studies

Socius
The author critically engages with the writings of J.P.S. Uberoi, a towering figure in Indian sociology and anthropology whose studies of modern science and European modernity have, nonetheless, been largely ignored within the fields of sociology as well
Amit Prasad
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Creating space(s) for learning in prison: Developing an andragogical framework

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Learning in prison is too often excluded from wider discussions of educational experiences, processes and impact. This paper proposes, for the first time, an iterative andragogical framework to conceptualise learning spaces within prison contexts.
Morwenna Bennallick, Jayne Finlay, Ross Little, Helen Nichols   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Science and Technology Studies, History of

, 2015
The interdisciplinary field of science and technology studies (STS) has only emerged in the late 1970s but has been influenced by various lines of thought in sociology, philosophy, and economics.
Harald Rohracher, Rohracher, Harald,
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‘Fish in simulated water’? A Bourdieusian analysis of Chinese doctoral students' learning experiences in Southeast Asian developing countries

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract International student mobility (ISM) has historically followed a pattern of movement from developing regions to developed countries. However, in recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in the number of Chinese students pursuing doctoral studies in Southeast Asian developing countries, an area that has received relatively little ...
Yueyang Zheng, Kun Dai, Alan C. K. Cheung   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge transfer to society - examples from chemistry and sociology

, 2022
S.47-65In the last few decades science and scientific institutions have come under pressure. They are increasingly forced to do research efficiently, and the transfer of their results should generate economic or societal benefit.
Schulze, Nicole
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Putting Pragmatism to Work in the Cold War: Science, Technology, and Politics in the Writings of James B. Conant [PDF]

, 2011
This paper examines James Conant’s pragmatic theory of science – a theory that has been neglected by most commentators on the history of 20th-century philosophy of science – and it argues that this theory occupied an important place in Conant’s strategic
Justin Biddle, Biddle, Justin B.
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School readiness and the good level of development: Policy constructions in English early childhood education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
wiley   +1 more source