Teacher Professional Becoming: A Practice-Based, Actor-Network Theory Perspective

Abstract

This chapter examines the significance of ‘more than human’ dimensions for teacher professional becoming, using resources provided by actor–network theory (ANT). A form of practice-based theorising, ANT provides a rich array of concepts towards thinking professional becoming differently. Drawing on empirical data, it is argued that professional becoming can, with profit, be conceptualised as a field of practices constituted and enacted by people and tools in complex ecologies or networks. Challenging the established individualised, psychological perspective, where becoming is primarily seen in terms of the intrinsic capabilities or potentialities of people, teacher professional becoming is a..