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dc.contributor.authorJoyce, Alexander
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-26T09:14:47Z
dc.date.available2018-03-26T09:14:47Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2492062
dc.description.abstractIn order for technological innovations to unfold their full potential on institutionalized education services, there is a need to move away from seeing technology as a complementary resource, into developing information and communication technology (ICT) incorporated practices. A practice approach sees technology as an inherently social phenomenon, and as such implies a need to recognize actors' learning and identityformation in their resource integrating practices. Learning and identity-formation enables the enactment of field-specific competences, to perform conventionally accepted actions, in social practice. This issue has not been adequately addressed in conventional innovation literature, which has preferred to see the actor as ready-made. Following a practice theoretical perspective, this thesis explores the role of social practice in affecting changes to the arrangement of actors in a technology-mediated community of practice, and how value that is had from education service is contingent on such practice arrangements. Findings, from a two-step qualitative data collection, indicate that applying practice theoretical perspectives to the empirical case study in question implies a need to emphasise, not only a localized social dimension, but a networked dimension covering widely dispersed sociomaterial actors. This has theoretical, as well as managerial implications for education service innovation. Keywords: Social practice, learning, service innovation, education service, education technology, education managementnb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherHøgskolen i Sørøst-Norgenb_NO
dc.subjectinnovasjonnb_NO
dc.subjectledelsenb_NO
dc.subjectinnovationnb_NO
dc.subjectmanagementnb_NO
dc.subjectsosial praksisnb_NO
dc.subjectsocial practicenb_NO
dc.titlePractice change in a community of dispersed actors - Exploring the role of social practice in virtual community innovationnb_NO
dc.typeMaster thesisnb_NO
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200nb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber57nb_NO


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