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Learning to become a science talent: a case study of the emergence of the knowing subject in a talent development program at the Mærsk McKinney Møller Science Centre in Denmark.
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The article focuses on the concept of talent and its enactment in a science talent program.
The article investigates how students become a particular kind of knowing subject
through their participation in a science talent program at the Mærsk McKinney Science
Centre in Denmark. Drawing on concepts from new materialist studies (Latour 1993;
Blok & Ellgaard Jensen 2009; Fox & Alldred 2017) the article explores the relationship
between the possibilities for distribution that are offered to the participants, and the
ways in which the participants respond by centering and decentering within the talent
network (Mialet 2008, 2012). The study contributes to our understanding of, how the
increased focus on talent development in many national educational systems influences
basic preconceptions of what a science student is and how the knowing subject in
society should treat science, by looking into the micro-politics of talent development.
The study is based on a small-scale ethnographic fieldwork at a science camp of three
days. Since it is a case study the findings account only for enactments of science talent
within the confines of this particular science camp.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies |
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Volume | 6 |
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Issue | 1 |
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Pages (from-to) | 35-45 |
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Number of pages | 10 |
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DOIs | |
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Publication status | Published - 13 Sep 2018 |
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- Talent development, New materialism, Science education, Becoming, Educational subjectivity
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