Outputs (5)

Professionalism in Vocational Education: International Perspectives (2017)
Journal Article
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.

Institutional Ethnography, Theory, Methodology, and Research: Some Concerns and Some Comments. (2017)
Book Chapter
Tummons, J. (2017). Institutional Ethnography, Theory, Methodology, and Research: Some Concerns and Some Comments. In J. Reid, & L. Russell (Eds.), Perspectives on and from Institutional Ethnography (147-162). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1042-319220170000015003

In this chapter, I outline the key tenets of institutional ethnography (IE) as a framework for interpretivist social research. Through drawing not only on the key tenets of IE but also on the key findings and conclusions of the different chapters – e... Read More about Institutional Ethnography, Theory, Methodology, and Research: Some Concerns and Some Comments..

Imitation is not always flattery! The consequences of academy schools in England for further education policy (2017)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.