Article ID: CBB268240142

The Laboratorization of Schools: Laboratory Metaphors in Twenty-first Century US Education (2020)

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In twenty-first century US education, laboratory metaphors are used to frame school governance and classroom practices. To explore how non-laboratory and non-traditional laboratory settings are framed as sites for experimentation, science and technology studies (STS) has two parallel trajectories for conceptualizing the laboratorization of society: the literal implantation of laboratories into physical locations and the metaphorical application that looks at the world as if it were a laboratory, that is from a ‘laboratory perspective’. Concerning the latter, the laboratory perspective offers STS ways to study: (1) how laboratory metaphors frame social and cultural understandings of scientific knowledge production; (2) the work laboratory metaphors do when used to describe non-laboratory settings. Fieldwork in two classrooms reveals how laboratory metaphors reproduce different but coexisting images of scientific knowledge production. There is an ideal image of laboratories as orderly, with a controlled amount of outside influence. This image frames schools as places with which to experiment from the top-down. There is a more empirical image of laboratories as socially and culturally structured. This image frames schools as places to conduct experiments from the bottom-up. Though each framing positions teachers and students differently, both are useful for characterizing the dynamics of US education.

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Authors & Contributors
Candace Robertson
Sheppard, Sheri
Norman, Marie
Lachney, Michael
Adam Kirn
Johnson, Kenneth L.
Concepts
Students
Education
Teachers
Education, engineering
Science and society
Universities and colleges
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Italy
Kansas (U.S.)
Peru
Iowa (U.S.)
Institutions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Iowa State College, Ames
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