February 2017

Research update #16 – Narrowing focus

PhD by Colin Simpson

I had a Skype chat with my supervisor and told Peter about my refined direction shifting the research question to What can TEL edvisors do to better support TELT practices in Higher Education. This moves […]

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Thoughts on: Thoughts on: The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday life and how it changes – Chapter 5 (Shove, Pantzar and Watson, 2012)

academic development, academics, materials, practice by Colin Simpson

This chapter has us looking at the ways that practices can be grouped together, what factors drive these groupings and what impact competition and collaboration between practices has on other practices. (I’m still mind-mapping the […]

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Thoughts on: The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday life and how it changes – Chapter 4 (Shove, Pantzar and Watson, 2012)

academics, activity, community of practice, competences, materials, meaning, practice, SAMR, social practice theory, sociomaterial theory, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

Chapter 4 of The Dynamics of Social Practice takes us from the ways that the elements of practices circulate, emerge and disappear to the people that ‘carry’ these practices and some of the reasons that […]

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