Anders Buch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4504098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anders Buch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anders |
| FAMILY NAME | Buch |
| SIGNATURE | BUCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6270-4949 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Speculative Practicescapes of Learning Design and Dreaming
This article addresses a serious issue that besets learning design: its over-reliance on frameworks that promise particular outcomes for individual learners that accord with pre-defined metrics. This is partly a function of the nature of learning design and development itself which is commonly seen as outcome-oriented activity that should benefit individual learners in specific ways. An alternative approach is adopted here which calls attention t…
Concepts, Change, and the Dark Side of Futures Methods in Postdigital Education
Exploring a practice theoretical tool-kit approach for studying professional and organisational learning processes
This article conceptually explores different practice theoretical vantage points in empirical studies of professional and organisational learning processes. Through an ethnographic study of a management development program in Denmark, possibilities and limitations of three different practice-theoretical approaches are considered. Firstly, learning processes are examined as professional identity formation through participation in the community of …
Automation Is Coming! Exploring Future(s)-Oriented Methods in Education
Emerging automated-decision making (ADM) technologies invite scholars to engage with future points in time and contexts that have not yet arisen. This particular state of not knowing yet implies the methodological challenge of examining images of the future and how such images will materialize in practice. In this respect, we ask the following: what are appropriate research methods for studying emerging ADM technologies in education? How do resea…
Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities
Discursive Enactments of Knowledge Production in Engineering Education
Engineering education is under the sway of wide-ranging dynamics and drifts that have bearing on how education is enacted in relation to the research and innovation obligations of universities. Academic, applied, and third mission drifts seem to configure higher education in new ways. The article sets out to critically explore how knowledge production is discursively enacted in the teachingresearch-practice-nexus in engineering universities of ap…
Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities
When does the owl of Minerva spread its wings? Shadow organizing and modes of inquiry
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critique the metaphor of “shadow organizing” in relation to researchers’ allegedly ontological commitment to processual metaphysics. Design/methodology/approach The paper focuses on the association of “shadow organizing” with post-epistemologies that are grounded in process ontology. The investigation examines aspects of relational thinking and is guided by John Dewey and Arthur Bentley’s genealogical recon…
Questions of Practice in Philosophy and Social Theory
Humanistic theory for more than the past 100 years is marked by extensive attention to practice and practices. Two prominent streams of thought sharing this focus are pragmatism and theories of practice. This volume brings together internationally prominent theorists to explore key dimensions of practice and practices on the background of parallels and points of contact between these two traditions. The contributors all are steeped in one or both…
Sapere aude revisited and revised
Transforming academia
Scientific research is usually presented as the driver that provides progress and meaning to the academic ecosystem. Higher education on the other hand, is typically imagined as something that naturally follows scientific research. In the academic ecosystem, education often retains a more marginalized position than scientific research and in many of the predominant accounts of the academic ecosystem it is even neglected. As a result, higher educa…
Management of Professionals in School Practices
This article investigates organizational reform changes as they are constructed in the interaction between managers and teachers in a school context. The empirical basis is comprised of case studies carried out in Danish upper secondary schools. An ethnographic approach and a concept of paradox related to an understanding of professionals are used to investigate the practices involved in the change processes. The article argues that the ambiguity…
Ideas of holistic engineering meet engineering work practices
This article critically reflects on the viability of the idea that reforming engineering education will result in more holistic engineering work practices. Drawing on an empirical study, the article aims to demonstrate that in order to change existing engineering work practices, it might be necessary to change engineers’ knowledge and skills; however, such changes are far from sufficient. Conditions and circumstances external to practitioners’ kn…
Making room in engineering design practices
This article aims to explore the challenges that occur from a practice perspective when a new approach to engineering design enters an existing ecology of professional practices in a workplace. Using four empirical episodes, the article illustrates a concrete effort to challenge what counts as ‘real engineering’ or what is recognized as part of the engineering expertise. Using an ethnographic, case-study-based research design the article document…
Engineering by other means
The three articles in this issue examine transformations in engineering work practices. From different perspectives, they explore how engineering work practices are being transformed (or not) when
How progressive pedagogics lie
Transforming academia
Scientific research is usually presented as the driver that provides progress and meaning to the academic ecosystem. Higher education on the other hand, is typically imagined as something that naturally follows scientific research. In the academic ecosystem, education often retains a more marginalized position than scientific research and in many of the predominant accounts of the academic ecosystem it is even neglected. As a result, higher educa…
Ideas of holistic engineering meet engineering work practices
This article critically reflects on the viability of the idea that reforming engineering education will result in more holistic engineering work practices. Drawing on an empirical study, the article aims to demonstrate that in order to change existing engineering work practices, it might be necessary to change engineers’ knowledge and skills; however, such changes are far from sufficient. Conditions and circumstances external to practitioners’ kn…
How progressive pedagogics lie
Management of Professionals in School Practices
This article investigates organizational reform changes as they are constructed in the interaction between managers and teachers in a school context. The empirical basis is comprised of case studies carried out in Danish upper secondary schools. An ethnographic approach and a concept of paradox related to an understanding of professionals are used to investigate the practices involved in the change processes. The article argues that the ambiguity…
Ideas of holistic engineering meet engineering work practices
This article critically reflects on the viability of the idea that reforming engineering education will result in more holistic engineering work practices. Drawing on an empirical study, the article aims to demonstrate that in order to change existing engineering work practices, it might be necessary to change engineers’ knowledge and skills; however, such changes are far from sufficient. Conditions and circumstances external to practitioners’ kn…
Making room in engineering design practices
This article aims to explore the challenges that occur from a practice perspective when a new approach to engineering design enters an existing ecology of professional practices in a workplace. Using four empirical episodes, the article illustrates a concrete effort to challenge what counts as ‘real engineering’ or what is recognized as part of the engineering expertise. Using an ethnographic, case-study-based research design the article document…
Engineering by other means
The three articles in this issue examine transformations in engineering work practices. From different perspectives, they explore how engineering work practices are being transformed (or not) when
Questions of Practice in Philosophy and Social Theory
Humanistic theory for more than the past 100 years is marked by extensive attention to practice and practices. Two prominent streams of thought sharing this focus are pragmatism and theories of practice. This volume brings together internationally prominent theorists to explore key dimensions of practice and practices on the background of parallels and points of contact between these two traditions. The contributors all are steeped in one or both…
Sapere aude revisited and revised
Transforming academia
Scientific research is usually presented as the driver that provides progress and meaning to the academic ecosystem. Higher education on the other hand, is typically imagined as something that naturally follows scientific research. In the academic ecosystem, education often retains a more marginalized position than scientific research and in many of the predominant accounts of the academic ecosystem it is even neglected. As a result, higher educa…
When does the owl of Minerva spread its wings? Shadow organizing and modes of inquiry
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critique the metaphor of “shadow organizing” in relation to researchers’ allegedly ontological commitment to processual metaphysics. Design/methodology/approach The paper focuses on the association of “shadow organizing” with post-epistemologies that are grounded in process ontology. The investigation examines aspects of relational thinking and is guided by John Dewey and Arthur Bentley’s genealogical recon…
Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities
Discursive Enactments of Knowledge Production in Engineering Education
Engineering education is under the sway of wide-ranging dynamics and drifts that have bearing on how education is enacted in relation to the research and innovation obligations of universities. Academic, applied, and third mission drifts seem to configure higher education in new ways. The article sets out to critically explore how knowledge production is discursively enacted in the teachingresearch-practice-nexus in engineering universities of ap…
Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities
Automation Is Coming! Exploring Future(s)-Oriented Methods in Education
Emerging automated-decision making (ADM) technologies invite scholars to engage with future points in time and contexts that have not yet arisen. This particular state of not knowing yet implies the methodological challenge of examining images of the future and how such images will materialize in practice. In this respect, we ask the following: what are appropriate research methods for studying emerging ADM technologies in education? How do resea…
Speculative Practicescapes of Learning Design and Dreaming
This article addresses a serious issue that besets learning design: its over-reliance on frameworks that promise particular outcomes for individual learners that accord with pre-defined metrics. This is partly a function of the nature of learning design and development itself which is commonly seen as outcome-oriented activity that should benefit individual learners in specific ways. An alternative approach is adopted here which calls attention t…
Concepts, Change, and the Dark Side of Futures Methods in Postdigital Education
Exploring a practice theoretical tool-kit approach for studying professional and organisational learning processes
This article conceptually explores different practice theoretical vantage points in empirical studies of professional and organisational learning processes. Through an ethnographic study of a management development program in Denmark, possibilities and limitations of three different practice-theoretical approaches are considered. Firstly, learning processes are examined as professional identity formation through participation in the community of …
Engineering (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Engineering ethics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Engineering management (4 works) · Innovative Education and Learning Practices (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)