Outputs (65)

“What’s he writing in there?” Reciprocal field relations and relational curiosity in ethnographies of education (2024)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2024). “What’s he writing in there?” Reciprocal field relations and relational curiosity in ethnographies of education. Ethnography and Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2024.2368032

The notion of the ethnographer as participant observer, as an active agent rather than passive observer within the research field, is well established within conversations about method and methodology. Less well explored is the extent to which the in... Read More about “What’s he writing in there?” Reciprocal field relations and relational curiosity in ethnographies of education.

“I’ve got a mountain of paperwork to do!” literacies and texts in a cycle technicians’ workshop (2023)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2023). “I’ve got a mountain of paperwork to do!” literacies and texts in a cycle technicians’ workshop. Journal of Education and Work, 36(5), 381-392. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2023.2226076

Derived from an ethnography of working cultures and practices at a bike shop in the North of England, this paper rests on a critical application of social practice theories of literacy (Literacy Studies) in order to explore the complex and heterogene... Read More about “I’ve got a mountain of paperwork to do!” literacies and texts in a cycle technicians’ workshop.

Theorising the everyday work of cycle mechanics (2023)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2023). Theorising the everyday work of cycle mechanics. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2023.2206712

Drawing on interim findings from an ethnography of a cycle mechanics’ workshop, this article demonstrates how the work of the mechanics rests on not only specific and contextualised craft expertise but also on distributed networks of both people and... Read More about Theorising the everyday work of cycle mechanics.

Mapping academic practice: a Latourian inquiry into a set of lecture slides (2023)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2023). Mapping academic practice: a Latourian inquiry into a set of lecture slides. Higher Education Research & Development, 42(7), 1748-1761. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2174086

How is academic work accomplished within a curriculum that has been established through a digital education infrastructure, and what, exactly, does an academic member of staff do within this digital context? Reflecting on the empirical findings of a... Read More about Mapping academic practice: a Latourian inquiry into a set of lecture slides.

Exploring Communities of Practice in Further and Adult Education: Apprenticeship, Expertise and Belonging (2022)
Book
Tummons, J. (2022). Exploring Communities of Practice in Further and Adult Education: Apprenticeship, Expertise and Belonging. Routledge

Knowledge, expertise, craft, and practice: becoming and being a cycle technician (2022)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2022). Knowledge, expertise, craft, and practice: becoming and being a cycle technician. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, https://doi.org/10.1080/13636820.2022.2132527

This paper provides an account of the everyday workplace learning of cycle technicians. Derived from an ethnography of working cultures and practices at a bike shop in the North of England, this paper rests on a critical reading of Communities of Pra... Read More about Knowledge, expertise, craft, and practice: becoming and being a cycle technician.

Negotiating humanity: an ethnography of cadaver-based simulation (2022)
Journal Article
MacLeod, A., Cameron, P., Luong, V., Kovacs, G., Patrick, L., Fredeen, M., …Tummons, J. (2023). Negotiating humanity: an ethnography of cadaver-based simulation. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 28(1), 181-203. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-022-10152-4

Human body donation (HBD) serves an essential function in many medical schools, particularly in institutions where people engage in cadaver-based simulation (CBS) as a pedagogical approach. The people who facilitate HBD and CBS have a highly speciali... Read More about Negotiating humanity: an ethnography of cadaver-based simulation.

The Many Worlds of Ethics: Proposing a Latourian Investigation of the Work of Research Ethics in Ethnographies of Education (2022)
Book Chapter
Tummons, J. (in press). The Many Worlds of Ethics: Proposing a Latourian Investigation of the Work of Research Ethics in Ethnographies of Education. In Ethics, Ethnography and Education. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1529-210x20220000019002

The Lifecycle of a Clinical Cadaver: A Practice-Based Ethnography (2022)
Journal Article
MacLeod, A., Luong, V., Cameron, P., Kovacs, G., Fredeen, M., Patrick, L., …Tummons, J. (2022). The Lifecycle of a Clinical Cadaver: A Practice-Based Ethnography. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 34(5), 556-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/10401334.2022.2092111

PhenomenonCadavers have long played an important and complex role in medical education. While research on cadaver-based simulation has largely focused on exploring student attitudes and reactions or measuring improvements in procedural performance, t... Read More about The Lifecycle of a Clinical Cadaver: A Practice-Based Ethnography.

On The Educational Mode of Existence: Latour, Meta-Ethnography, and the Social Institution of Education (2021)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2021). On The Educational Mode of Existence: Latour, Meta-Ethnography, and the Social Institution of Education. Social Anthropology, 29(3), 570-585. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13087

This article constitutes an argument for both the use and expansion of the philosophical anthropology of Bruno Latour, as established in his recent work An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (AIME). Drawing on ethnographies of education as a methodology... Read More about On The Educational Mode of Existence: Latour, Meta-Ethnography, and the Social Institution of Education.