ANT and Engineering Education

Formal engineering education is a situated process enacted by motivation and enrolment of actors, usually transforming different materials, that inscribes durable behaviors in framed exploratory ways of learning and innovation. Inscribing technologic design and development in the use of artefacts is a basic concern and pushes us to sociotechnical ambiences looking for sustainable solutions. We think Actor-Network Theory provides a framework that contributes to our understanding of the complexity inscribed in the relations and mutual influences that emerge between actors in learning spaces. Using narrative, and exploring ANT concepts we circulate in learning spaces, observing and deciding about the ways we can explore to enact knowledge creation and learning. Our results are exploratory but they contribute to provide a different look into the engineering education field. We believe this look is an innovative one, adapted and consistent with an eventual new extension to this specific area of knowledge - engineering education.