Monday, April 22, 2024

Theory of practice architecture - book overview

 This book,  the theory of practice architecture is by Peter Grootenboer and Christine Edwards-Groves. It is published by Springer in 2023.

Being a book in the Springer Brief series, it has five chapters. The first chapter summarises the premises with regards to the concepts of practice architetcture as a research approach to help understand real-world practices and 'practice-scapes.

The second chapter, extends the work into the wider approach of theories of ecologies of practice.

Then the third chapter explains the importance of situating practices into their authentic settings.

Chapter four details the ways practice architecture influence and lead the interpretation and analysis of data.

The last chapter provides recommendaitions on how to disseminate practice-based research to ensure it has impact and is used tranformationally to inform and perhaps enhance practice.





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