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Jonathan Tummons
I am an ethnographer of education, and am interested in using ethnographic methods to explore the everyday practices of students and teachers in a variety of contexts in higher and further education. I am particularly interested in exploring teaching and learning through using frameworks and concepts that derive from sociology and anthropology, including: communities of practice theory; actor-network theory; and literacy as social practice (‘new literacy studies’).
Subjects: Education
Biography
I came to academia late, after a history degree, working as a porter, a cartoonist, and a cycle mechanic [Cytech level 2 qualified]. I began teaching evening classes to adults in 1995 and slowly became more interested in the education process than in the history subjects that I was teaching. I studies for a PGCE [post-compulsory], MEd and PhD, all part-time [twelve years], working at FE colleges and later at Teesside University. I started working at Durham in 2013.Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Actor-Network Theory
Modes of Existence
Communities of Practice
Further, Higher and Adult Education
Professional learning and development
Personal Interests
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Reading. Music. Records. Lego.
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