Practice Theory and Relationalism as the New Constructivism

McCourt, David M.

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“…When analyzing the educational principles and theories that instill Agile Education we observe that the perceived benefits of adopting an agile approach in education can be linked to the experiential learning theories of Dewey, Kolb and Piaget, which all state that knowledge develops as a result of direct experience [39]. Agile methodologies are therefore deeply rooted in constructivism as individuals are considered an active agent of their own learning [40][41][42][43]. Additionally, the following key competencies of constructivism are fostered in Agile Education [44]: Additionally, it is possible to see how Agile Education has connections to active learning and cooperative and collaborative learning theories.…”

Section: Agile Education and Education Theories And Designmentioning

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A Systematic Review of the Use of Agile Methodologies in Education to Foster Sustainability Competencies

2019

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Life-long learning and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the current fast-evolving and ever-changing society requires modern pedagogical tools and methodologies that help the transmission of key competencies such as coping with uncertainty, adaptability, creativity, dialog, respect, self-confidence, emotional intelligence, responsibility and systemic thinking. The recent trend of the application of Agile methodologies for the management of projects in different fields can be a valuable tool to convey these competencies due to the participative, collaborative and constructionist principles in which they are deeply rooted. Some experiences of the application of Agile Methodologies in education—originating what is known as Agile Education—are, therefore, starting to appear in the literature. This work carries out a systematic review to analyze how this modern pedagogical tool is being used to foster key sustainable development competencies in the field of education. Results are presented for 11 out of 121 analyzed studies which present a direct link between key ESD competencies and Agile Education. It is shown that Agile Education creates a learning environment favorable for the creation of responsible and sustainable citizens while improving the performance, satisfaction and motivation of both faculty and students.

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Section: Agile Education and Education Theories And Designmentioning

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A Systematic Review of the Use of Agile Methodologies in Education to Foster Sustainability Competencies

2019

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“…Taken together, practice-relationalism can be considered a twin approach because the aim in each is to recover a more appropriate understanding of the social in social explanation by foregrounding process over fixity (emphasis in original). 47 While sympathetic to McCourt's interpretation of Practice as constructivist I contend that the social is not "process over fixity" but process and fixity. As the actor's behaviour adjusts and evolves, rather than asking, is the actor complying with the norms in place, it is more pertinent to ask, what does the actor's altered behaviour reveal about their understanding of the norm in this current context?…”

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“…prominence. 2 Of these divisions within constructivism the distinction between conventional or mainstream and critical is the clearest, with the prominence of the former over the latter, and the extent to which this reflected a betrayal of the early constructivist writings, underpinning the sense of lament about wither constructivism. 3 Whether constructivism is on the wane drew different interpretations of a 2014 Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) survey of the profession.…”

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W(h)ither the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)? W(h)ither constructivism? Fixity of norms and the ASEAN Way

Collins

2019

International Relations

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This article uses the reflection on the direction (whither) and health (wither) of constructivism and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that was witnessed in 2017 to see what these deliberations reveal about the fixity of norms and their contestation. The argument presented is that constitutive norms create fixed parameters of shared understandings but that within those parameters the meaning and application of the norm can be contested and debated. This insight helps to bridge the gap between conventional and critical constructivists and shows that the premise of jettisoning the ASEAN Way as necessary for ASEAN to achieve its ambitious community-building project is flawed. The argument relies on insights from the constructivist literature on norm degeneration to show how contestation is not one part of a norm’s life cycle but rather a constant companion. However, norms are not just contested, but they have fixity, and here practice theory can help show that the social world is just as much about continuity as it is change. The ASEAN case study is timely as introspection about the efficacy of its constitutive norms – the ASEAN Way – was prominent in 2017 as ASEAN turned 50.

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“…The USbased opponents to OEP argue that the approach ignores important systemic effects while concentrating on relationships between discrete actors, and that such reductionism is not a requirement for methodologically rigorous IPE scholarship (Oatley and Winecoff 2015). Research on the development of academic professions has demonstrated that scholarship is propelled by simple opposition between two elements recognized as important to an intellectual system (Abbott 2001;McCourt 2016;Seabrooke and Tsingou 2014;Tarrow 2008).…”

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The networks and niches of international political economy

Seabrooke

Young

2017

Review of International Political Economy

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We analyze the organizational logics of how social clustering operates within International Political Economy (IPE). Using a variety of new data on IPE publishing, teaching, and conference attendance, we use network analysis and community detection to understand social clustering within the field. We find that when it comes to publishing and intellectual engagement, IPE is highly pluralistic and driven by a logic of 'niche proliferation'. Teaching IPE, however, is characterized by a 'reduction to polarity' that emphasizes a dualism in ontological and epistemological frames. In the face of competitive exclusion pressures, intellectual communities regenerate themselves by constructing niches while simultaneously nodding to a common tradition.

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Practice Theory and Relationalism as the New Constructivism

Cited by 213 publications

References 91 publications

A Systematic Review of the Use of Agile Methodologies in Education to Foster Sustainability Competencies

A Systematic Review of the Use of Agile Methodologies in Education to Foster Sustainability Competencies

W(h)ither the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)? W(h)ither constructivism? Fixity of norms and the ASEAN Way

The networks and niches of international political economy

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