Outputs (4)

Atrocity stories and access to elite universities: chickens at the station (2020)
Journal Article
Hillyard, S., Tummons, J., & Winnard, S. (2021). Atrocity stories and access to elite universities: chickens at the station. Symbolic Interaction, 44(3), 533-554. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.513

The article explores the interactional management of class relations using atrocity stories as a conceptual device vis‐à‐vis new case study data. We argue that interactionist ideas are well placed to comment on the hidden injuries of class in the hig... Read More about Atrocity stories and access to elite universities: chickens at the station.

Higher education, theory, and modes of existence: thinking about universities with Latour (2020)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2021). Higher education, theory, and modes of existence: thinking about universities with Latour. Higher Education Research & Development, 40(6), 1313-1325. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2020.1804337

In this article, I pick up established critical explorations of the role and use of theory in higher education research, focusing on the theoretical affordances of the work of Bruno Latour, one of the architects of actor-network theory. Actor-network... Read More about Higher education, theory, and modes of existence: thinking about universities with Latour.

Reassembling teachers' professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics (2020)
Journal Article
Unsworth, R., & Tummons, J. (2021). Reassembling teachers' professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics. Ethnography and Education, 16(1), 109-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2020.1788405

The formation of teachers’ professional practice has been discussed in relation to a wide variety of influences, with government prescription of practice often criticised as oppressing professional agency. Set within an ethnographic study within one... Read More about Reassembling teachers' professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics.

Ontological pluralism, modes of existence, and actor-network theory: upgrading Latour with Latour (2020)
Journal Article
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.