Practice Architectures of University Education

This chapter aims to challenge the narrative of the university in decline in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, by showing how earlier forms of university life and practice persist within emerging forms. It uses the resources of practice

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ractice Theory Perspectives on Pedagogy and Education Praxis, Diversity and Contestation

Practice Theory Perspectives on Pedagogy and Education

Peter Grootenboer Christine Edwards-Groves Sarojni Choy •

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Practice Theory Perspectives on Pedagogy and Education Praxis, Diversity and Contestation

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Editors Peter Grootenboer Griffith University Gold Coast, QLD Australia

Sarojni Choy Griffith University Mount Gravatt, QLD Australia

Christine Edwards-Groves Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga, NSW Australia

ISBN 978-981-10-3128-1 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3130-4

ISBN 978-981-10-3130-4

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This book is dedicated to our dear colleagues Barbara Garrick and Roslyn Brennan-Kemmis who sadly passed away far too soon. Both were integral to the development of this volume, but passed away between the symposium and the publication of this book. Their work in and for education was an inspiration to all who worked with them and their dedication to a just and fair society is will be their legacy.

Preface

Although there is a long history of understanding and theorising work, education, and other facets of social life through practice perspectives, recently there has been renewed interest. More specifically, in theorising pedagogy and education that Schatzki, Knorr Cetina, and von Savigny (2001) called for a practice turn to contexualise educational practices in grounded and highly transformative ways. This turn has not only launched new developments in practice theory itself, but has been adopted across a range of educational sectors and contexts as an approach to not only understand the practices th