… He suggested that the broad attractiveness of the practice idiom arises Practice Theory 641
… in social theory, in ways that turn out to be superficial or empty: The idea of ‘practice’ and its …

… As I discuss below and explain in depth in Chapter 9, practice theories are thus
necessarily theorymethods packages that produce a shift in our understanding of social and …

… In the chapter, we discuss the status of ‘theory’ and why practice theory calls for novel
understandings of it, whether and how one can generalise with praxiography, as well as the …

… into a single practical theory of teaching in the teacher's mind but more often, probably,
theories are used together, in sets. It appears that teachers rarely conceive of their theories as …

… Our intention is, with the help of practice theory, to supplement these two lines of research
with one that makes phronesis less dependent on partnerships with episteme and techne, …

… on the conditions surrounding the practical carrying out of social … (2002)–who sketches
practice theory as an ideal type, … ‘cultural theories’–it could be argued that practice theories have …

… teachers' (personal) theories and beliefs and their (practical) knowledge derived from
experience, whether held implicitly or stated explicitly as their personal practical theories (PPTs), …

… different theories, and different theories may have different applications. When we design
a theory, we can choose any axioms we like, but a bad choice can result in a useless theory. …

… practical theory.3 Our model of grounded practical theory extends Craig’s (1 989) concept of
practical … , normative problems related to a practice are explored through a close interpretive …

… practice, whereas academic theory is abstract, generalised, explicit and seeks to be provable.
The study develops practical theories … learning and developing practical theory from these …