Outputs (66)

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.

‘Very positive’ or ‘vague and detached’? Unpacking ambiguities in further education teachers’ responses to professional standards in England (2016)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2016). ‘Very positive’ or ‘vague and detached’? Unpacking ambiguities in further education teachers’ responses to professional standards in England. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 21(4), 346-359. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2016.1226589

During the last two decades, a number of successive policy initiatives have attempted to professionalise the further education sector in England: professional qualifications have been rewritten, made compulsory and then returned to voluntary status;... Read More about ‘Very positive’ or ‘vague and detached’? Unpacking ambiguities in further education teachers’ responses to professional standards in England.

The Invisible Work of Distributed Medical Education: Exploring the Contributions of Audiovisual Professionals, Administrative Professionals and Faculty Teachers (2016)
Journal Article
MacLeod, A., Kits, O., Mann, K., Tummons, J., & Wilson, K. (2016). The Invisible Work of Distributed Medical Education: Exploring the Contributions of Audiovisual Professionals, Administrative Professionals and Faculty Teachers. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 22, 623-638. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-016-9695-4

Distributed medical education (DME) is becoming increasingly prevalent. Much of the published literature on DME has focused on the experiences of learners in distributed programs; however, our empirical work leads us to believe that DME changes the c... Read More about The Invisible Work of Distributed Medical Education: Exploring the Contributions of Audiovisual Professionals, Administrative Professionals and Faculty Teachers.

Teaching without a blackboard and chalk: conflicting attitudes towards using ICTs in higher education teaching and learning (2016)
Journal Article
Tummons, J., Fournier, C., Kits, O., & Macleod, A. (2016). Teaching without a blackboard and chalk: conflicting attitudes towards using ICTs in higher education teaching and learning. Higher Education Research & Development, 35(4), 829-840. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2015.1137882

This article, derived from a three-year ethnography of distributed medical education provision in a Canadian university, explores the ways in which information and communication technologies are used by teachers and students in their everyday work wi... Read More about Teaching without a blackboard and chalk: conflicting attitudes towards using ICTs in higher education teaching and learning.

Sociomateriality: A Theoretical Framework for Studying Distributed Medical Education (2015)
Journal Article
Macleod, A., Kits, O., Whelan, E., Fournier, C., Wilson, K., Power, G., …Brown, A. (2015). Sociomateriality: A Theoretical Framework for Studying Distributed Medical Education. Academic Medicine, 90(11), 1451-1456. https://doi.org/10.1097/acm.0000000000000708

Distributed medical education (DME) is a type of distance learning in which students participate in medical education from diverse geographic locations using Web conferencing, videoconferencing, e-learning, and similar tools. DME is becoming increasi... Read More about Sociomateriality: A Theoretical Framework for Studying Distributed Medical Education.

Curriculum as Accomplishment. Tracing Human and Non-human Actors in the Delivery of Educational Curricula (2014)
Book Chapter
Tummons, J. (2014). Curriculum as Accomplishment. Tracing Human and Non-human Actors in the Delivery of Educational Curricula. In G. Kapriev, M. Roussel, & I. Tchalakov (Eds.), Le Sujet De L'Acteur: an anthropological outlook on Actor-Network Theory (163-180). Wilhelm Fink

The A-Z of Lifelong Learning. (2014)
Book
Tummons, J., & Ingleby, E. (2014). The A-Z of Lifelong Learning. McGraw-Hill

Using Software for Qualitative Data Analysis: Research outside paradigmatic boundaries (2014)
Book Chapter
Tummons, J. (2014). Using Software for Qualitative Data Analysis: Research outside paradigmatic boundaries. In M. Hand, & S. Hillyard (Eds.), Big Data? Qualitative approaches to digital research (155-177). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s1042-319220140000013010

Professional standards in teacher education: tracing discourses of professionalism through the analysis of textbooks (2014)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2014). Professional standards in teacher education: tracing discourses of professionalism through the analysis of textbooks. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 19(4), 417-432. https://doi.org/10.1080/13596748.2014.955634

This article explores aspects of the relationship between professional standards for teachers and the curriculum for teacher education in the lifelong learning sector in the United Kingdom. Drawing on an analysis of different editions of three core t... Read More about Professional standards in teacher education: tracing discourses of professionalism through the analysis of textbooks.

Ethnographies across virtual and physical spaces: a reflexive commentary on a live Canadian/UK ethnography of distributed medical education (2014)
Journal Article
Tummons, J., MacLeod, A., & Kits, O. (2015). Ethnographies across virtual and physical spaces: a reflexive commentary on a live Canadian/UK ethnography of distributed medical education. Ethnography and Education, 10(1), 107-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2014.956229

This article draws on an ongoing ethnography of distributed medical education (DME) provision in Canada in order to explore the methodological choices of the researchers as well as the wider pluralisation of ethnographic frameworks that is reflected... Read More about Ethnographies across virtual and physical spaces: a reflexive commentary on a live Canadian/UK ethnography of distributed medical education.