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Ethnography, materiality, and the principle of symmetry: problematising anthropocentrism and interactionism in the ethnography of education (2019)
Journal Article
Tummons, J., & Beach, D. (2020). Ethnography, materiality, and the principle of symmetry: problematising anthropocentrism and interactionism in the ethnography of education. Ethnography and Education, 15(3), 286-299. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2019.1683756

In this article we draw on actor-network theory (ANT) in order to challenge the methodological and empirical orthodoxies of anthropocentrism and interactionism that have long informed dominant discourses of ethnographic work. We use ANT to open new p... Read More about Ethnography, materiality, and the principle of symmetry: problematising anthropocentrism and interactionism in the ethnography of education.

Actor-network theory and ethnography: Sociomaterial approaches to researching medical education (2019)
Journal Article
MacLeod, A., Cameron, P., Ajjawi, R., Kits, O., & Tummons, J. (2019). Actor-network theory and ethnography: Sociomaterial approaches to researching medical education. Perspectives on Medical Education, 8(3), 177-186. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-019-0513-6

Medical education is a messy tangle of social and material elements. These material entities include tools, like curriculum guides, stethoscopes, cell phones, accreditation standards, and mannequins; natural elements, like weather systems, disease ve... Read More about Actor-network theory and ethnography: Sociomaterial approaches to researching medical education.

Education as a mode of existence: a Latourian inquiry into assessment validity in higher education (2019)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2020). Education as a mode of existence: a Latourian inquiry into assessment validity in higher education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 52(1), 45-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2019.1586530

Within professional higher education, the construct of assessment validity is used to make assumptions about the extent to which students are able to replicate in professional practice what they have learned during their studies through the provision... Read More about Education as a mode of existence: a Latourian inquiry into assessment validity in higher education.

Progressive research collaborations and the limits of soft power (2019)
Journal Article
Kits, O., Angus, C., MacLeod, A., & Tummons, J. (2019). Progressive research collaborations and the limits of soft power. Perspectives on Medical Education, 8(1), 28-32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-019-0496-3

Collaboration in diverse teams is a central topic area in medical education, health research, and healthcare. As medical education researchers we implemented an internal grant policy to develop a progressive research partnership based on widely accep... Read More about Progressive research collaborations and the limits of soft power.