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Institutional ethnography and actor–network theory: a framework for researching the assessment of trainee teachers

Tummons, J.

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Abstract

This article provides an analysis of assessment practices on one university-led teacher-training course in England, delivered across a network of further education colleges. After establishing that assessment practices are bound up in texts of different kinds, this article draws on two theoretical frameworks – institutional ethnography and actor–network theory – in order to explore how the work done by tutors and students on the course is mediated by texts. Through analysing the ways in which texts are used and the ways in which students and tutors respond to them, the paper suggests that assessment practices are in fact characterised by complexity and contingency which are masked by the dominant discourses of quality assurance and managerialism.

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Tummons, J. (2010). Institutional ethnography and actor–network theory: a framework for researching the assessment of trainee teachers. Ethnography and Education, 5(3), 345-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2010.511444

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Nov 19, 2010
Deposit Date Sep 19, 2013
Journal Ethnography and Education
Print ISSN 1745-7823
Electronic ISSN 1745-7831
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 5
Issue 3
Pages 345-357
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2010.511444
Keywords Institutional ethnography, Actor-network theory, Assessment, Teacher-training.

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