Professor Jonathan Tummons jonathan.tummons@durham.ac.uk
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Ethnographies of Higher Education and Modes of Existence: using Latour's philosophical anthropology to construct faithful accounts of higher education practice
Tummons, J.
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J. Huisman
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M. Tight
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Abstract
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 – AIME. Framed as an empirical inquiry into the ontological and epistemological conditions of modernity, Latour argues for a radical shift in how “objective truth,” “scientific fact,” and “meaning” are established within the world. In this chapter, I draw on several elements of AIME to illustrate how Latour’s ontology, building on, augmenting and responding to criticisms of actor-network theory, can be used to explore higher education, focussing on one episode derived from a larger ethnography of medical education.
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Tummons, J. (2019). Ethnographies of Higher Education and Modes of Existence: using Latour's philosophical anthropology to construct faithful accounts of higher education practice. In J. Huisman, & M. Tight (Eds.), Theory and method in higher education research (207-223). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/s2056-375220190000005013
Online Publication Date | Oct 7, 2019 |
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Publication Date | Oct 7, 2019 |
Deposit Date | Sep 3, 2019 |
Publicly Available Date | Oct 23, 2019 |
Publisher | Emerald |
Pages | 207-223 |
Series Title | Theory and method in higher education research |
Book Title | Theory and method in higher education research. |
ISBN | 9781838678425 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/s2056-375220190000005013 |
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