The Actional Turn in the Sciences of Culture
We argue that an actional turn is currently taking place across all the social and human sciences – the “sciences of culture.” By “actional turn,” we mean the fact that each studied phenomenon is seen through practice, as a practice. For example, Science is studied “in action” (Latour 1987), in a research process which privileges Science “in the making” over “ready-made” Science.
In Educational Sciences, in particular Science Education Research, this conception has two major consequences. The first one refers to the fact that, in order to understand Education, one has to understand two fundamental actions, the teaching action and the learning action, both in their conceptual structure and their empirical unfolding here and now. The second consequence rests on the same logic and refers to the knowledge ontology within the educational process. This knowledge is not seen as a thing, but as a praxeology (Chevallard and Sensevy 2014): a praxis...
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Sensevy, G. (2015). Action and Science Learning. In: Gunstone, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Science Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2150-0_372
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