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Ontological pluralism, modes of existence, and actor-network theory: upgrading Latour with Latour (2020)
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Tummons, J. (2021). Ontological pluralism, modes of existence, and actor-network theory: upgrading Latour with Latour. Social Epistemology, 35(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2020.1774815

Bruno Latour, one of the architects of actor-network theory, has now enfolded this approach within a larger project: An Inquiry into Modes of Existence. Framed as an empirical inquiry into the ontological and epistemological conditions of modernity,... Read More about Ontological pluralism, modes of existence, and actor-network theory: upgrading Latour with Latour.

Ethnography, materiality, and the principle of symmetry: problematising anthropocentrism and interactionism in the ethnography of education (2019)
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Tummons, J., & Beach, D. (2020). Ethnography, materiality, and the principle of symmetry: problematising anthropocentrism and interactionism in the ethnography of education. Ethnography and Education, 15(3), 286-299. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2019.1683756

In this article we draw on actor-network theory (ANT) in order to challenge the methodological and empirical orthodoxies of anthropocentrism and interactionism that have long informed dominant discourses of ethnographic work. We use ANT to open new p... Read More about Ethnography, materiality, and the principle of symmetry: problematising anthropocentrism and interactionism in the ethnography of education.

Actor-network theory and ethnography: Sociomaterial approaches to researching medical education (2019)
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MacLeod, A., Cameron, P., Ajjawi, R., Kits, O., & Tummons, J. (2019). Actor-network theory and ethnography: Sociomaterial approaches to researching medical education. Perspectives on Medical Education, 8(3), 177-186. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-019-0513-6

Medical education is a messy tangle of social and material elements. These material entities include tools, like curriculum guides, stethoscopes, cell phones, accreditation standards, and mannequins; natural elements, like weather systems, disease ve... Read More about Actor-network theory and ethnography: Sociomaterial approaches to researching medical education.

Education as a mode of existence: a Latourian inquiry into assessment validity in higher education (2019)
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Tummons, J. (2020). Education as a mode of existence: a Latourian inquiry into assessment validity in higher education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(1), 45-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2019.1586530

Within professional higher education, the construct of assessment validity is used to make assumptions about the extent to which students are able to replicate in professional practice what they have learned during their studies through the provision... Read More about Education as a mode of existence: a Latourian inquiry into assessment validity in higher education.

Progressive research collaborations and the limits of soft power (2019)
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Kits, O., Angus, C., MacLeod, A., & Tummons, J. (2019). Progressive research collaborations and the limits of soft power. Perspectives on Medical Education, 8(1), 28-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-019-0496-3

Collaboration in diverse teams is a central topic area in medical education, health research, and healthcare. As medical education researchers we implemented an internal grant policy to develop a progressive research partnership based on widely accep... Read More about Progressive research collaborations and the limits of soft power.

Technologies of Exposure: Videoconferenced Distributed Medical Education as a Sociomaterial Practice (2018)
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MacLeod, A., Cameron, P., Kits, O., & Tummons, J. (2019). Technologies of Exposure: Videoconferenced Distributed Medical Education as a Sociomaterial Practice. Academic Medicine, 94(3), 412-418. https://doi.org/10.1097/acm.0000000000002536

Purpose: Videoconferencing—a network of buttons, screens, microphones, cameras, and speakers—is one way to ensure that undergraduate medical curricula are comparably delivered across distributed medical education (DME) sites, a common requirement for... Read More about Technologies of Exposure: Videoconferenced Distributed Medical Education as a Sociomaterial Practice.

Professionalism in Vocational Education: International Perspectives (2017)
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Atkins, L., & Tummons, J. (2017). Professionalism in Vocational Education: International Perspectives. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 22(3), 355-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2017.1358517

This paper explores notions of professionalism amongst vocational teachers in the United Kingdom and Australia, through an analysis of voluntarism/regulatory frameworks and professional body frameworks. In terms of empirical evidence, the paper repor... Read More about Professionalism in Vocational Education: International Perspectives.

Imitation is not always flattery! The consequences of academy schools in England for further education policy (2017)
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Ingleby, E., & Tummons, J. (2017). Imitation is not always flattery! The consequences of academy schools in England for further education policy. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 22(2), 237-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2017.1314682

This article explores the consequences of the introduction of academy schools in England for further education. It is argued that the uncertainty of the remit of academy schools has indirect consequences for further education and that the employabili... Read More about Imitation is not always flattery! The consequences of academy schools in England for further education policy.

Using technology to accomplish comparability of provision in distributed medical education in Canada: an actor–network theory ethnography (2017)
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Tummons, J., Fournier, C., Kits, O., & Macleod, A. (2018). Using technology to accomplish comparability of provision in distributed medical education in Canada: an actor–network theory ethnography. Studies in Higher Education, 43(11), 1912-1922. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2017.1290063

This article is derived from a three-year ethnography of distributed medical education at one Canadian University across two Canadian provinces. It explores the ways in which students and staff work inside the technologically rich teaching environmen... Read More about Using technology to accomplish comparability of provision in distributed medical education in Canada: an actor–network theory ethnography.

ICTs and the internet as a framework and field in ethnographic research (2017)
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Tummons, J. (2017). ICTs and the internet as a framework and field in ethnographic research. Acta paedagogica Vilnensia (Spausdinta), 39, 132-143. https://doi.org/10.15388/actpaed.2017.39.11488

In this article, I offer a reflexive account drawing on my role as co-investigator based on a three-year institutional ethnography: Medical Education in a Digital Age. Three problematic issues are discussed: first, the ways by which a reliance on dig... Read More about ICTs and the internet as a framework and field in ethnographic research.