Actor-networks in Engineering Education, a project approach

Actor-network theory represents a way to look at things, very different from traditional approaches. Convinced that actor-networks can provide an excellent mindset to deal with innovation in engineering education we present a concise background on the topic oriented to this knowledge area. We deal with knowledge, learning, contexts, and actor networkingwithin situated cooperative environments. We deal with the articulation of planned approaches and policies, providing ideas to explore contexts in which we can improve people'sinvolvement and design some innovative strategies and artifacts. We address the conciliation of sensibilities that normally wouldn't be able to cooperate. We try to imagine a space of translations and negotiations that facilitate the formulation of problems as a combination of detoursand extensions, constructing alignments to a learning goal.