Practice Theory and Education : Diffractive Readings in Professional Practice (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Diffractive readings in practice theory Julianne Lynch, Julie Rowlands, Trevor Gale & Andrew Skourdoumbis

2. Exploring words as people’s practices Dorothy E Smith

3. Accounting for practice in an age of theory: Charles Taylor’s theory of social imaginaries Steven Hodge and Stephen Parker

4. Michel de Certeau: Research writing as an everyday practice Julianne Lynch and Kristoffer Greaves

5. ‘Gestures towards’: Conceptualising literary practices for Crises of Ecologies David Harris

6. Shaping and being shaped: extending the relationship between habitus and practice Julie Rowlands and Trevor Gale

7. Practicing policy networks: Using organisational field theory to examine philanthropic involvement in education policy Joseph J. Ferrare and Michael W. Apple

8. A Cultural-Historical Approach to Practice: working within and across practices Anne Edwards

9. The development of a text counselling practice: An actor-network theory account by Ailsa Haxell

10. Parsing and Re-Constituting Human Practice as Mind-in-Activity Peter H. Sawchuk

11. Boobs and Barbie: Feminist posthuman perspectives on gender, bodies and practice Julia Coffey and Jessica Ringrose

12.　The practice of survival: reflexivity and transformation of contract-employed beginning teachers’ professional practice Michelle Ludecke

13. Classroom activity systems and practices of care Catherine Smith and Russell Cross

14. Bad research, bad education: The contested evidence for evidence-based research, policy and practice in education Michael A Peters and Marek Tesar

15. Deliberations on the deliberative professional: Thought-action provocations Trevor Gale and Tebeje Molla

16. The temptations and failings of teacher effectiveness research: Provocations of a ‘practice perspective’ Andrew Skourdoumbis and Julianne Lynch