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Learning, instruction and assessment in the workplace: applying and augmenting Communities of Practice theory (2024)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (online). Learning, instruction and assessment in the workplace: applying and augmenting Communities of Practice theory. Studies in Continuing Education, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/0158037x.2024.2372490

Derived from an ethnography of workplace cultures and practices, this article rests on a critical application and augmentation of Communities of Practice theory in order to account for the ways in which the assessment of complex and heterogeneous wor... Read More about Learning, instruction and assessment in the workplace: applying and augmenting Communities of Practice theory.

“What’s he writing in there?” Reciprocal field relations and relational curiosity in ethnographies of education (2024)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (online). “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. (online). Theorising the everyday work of cycle mechanics. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 28(3), 313-329. 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.

Knowledge, expertise, craft, and practice: becoming and being a cycle technician (2022)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2024). Knowledge, expertise, craft, and practice: becoming and being a cycle technician. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 76(4), 928-945. 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., Kits, O., & 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 Lifecycle of a Clinical Cadaver: A Practice-Based Ethnography (2022)
Journal Article
MacLeod, A., Luong, V., Cameron, P., Kovacs, G., Fredeen, M., Patrick, L., Kits, O., & 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.

Atrocity stories and access to elite universities: chickens at the station (2020)
Journal Article
Hillyard, S., Tummons, J., & Winnard, S. (2021). Atrocity stories and access to elite universities: chickens at the station. Symbolic Interaction, 44(3), 533-554. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.513

The article explores the interactional management of class relations using atrocity stories as a conceptual device vis‐à‐vis new case study data. We argue that interactionist ideas are well placed to comment on the hidden injuries of class in the hig... Read More about Atrocity stories and access to elite universities: chickens at the station.

Higher education, theory, and modes of existence: thinking about universities with Latour (2020)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2021). Higher education, theory, and modes of existence: thinking about universities with Latour. Higher Education Research & Development, 40(6), 1313-1325. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2020.1804337

In this article, I pick up established critical explorations of the role and use of theory in higher education research, focusing on the theoretical affordances of the work of Bruno Latour, one of the architects of actor-network theory. Actor-network... Read More about Higher education, theory, and modes of existence: thinking about universities with Latour.

Reassembling teachers' professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics (2020)
Journal Article
Unsworth, R., & Tummons, J. (2021). Reassembling teachers' professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics. Ethnography and Education, 16(1), 109-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2020.1788405

The formation of teachers’ professional practice has been discussed in relation to a wide variety of influences, with government prescription of practice often criticised as oppressing professional agency. Set within an ethnographic study within one... Read More about Reassembling teachers' professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics.

Ontological pluralism, modes of existence, and actor-network theory: upgrading Latour with Latour (2020)
Journal Article
Tummons, J. (2021). Ontological pluralism, modes of existence, and actor-network theory: upgrading Latour with Latour. Social Epistemology, 35(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2020.1774815

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. Framed as an empirical inquiry into the ontological and epistemological conditions of modernity,... Read More about Ontological pluralism, modes of existence, and actor-network theory: upgrading Latour with Latour.

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.

Ethnographies of Higher Education and Modes of Existence: using Latour's philosophical anthropology to construct faithful accounts of higher education practice (2019)
Book Chapter
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

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 mode... Read More about Ethnographies of Higher Education and Modes of Existence: using Latour's philosophical anthropology to construct faithful accounts of higher education practice.