Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Mapping academic practice: a Latourian inquiry into a set of lecture slides

Tummons, Jonathan

Mapping academic practice: a Latourian inquiry into a set of lecture slides Thumbnail


Authors



Abstract

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 three-year ethnography of a distributed medical education curriculum delivered across two university campuses in Canada, this paper demonstrates that the ways in which work that has typically been characterised as academic is enacted within this curriculum, positioned as a socio-technological network, through a heterogeneous network of people and materials. Drawing on the philosophical anthropology of Bruno Latour, An Inquiry into Modes of Existence, this paper positions the individual academic member of staff as one amongst many network elements within the digital platform across which academic work is generated and circulated. The paper argues that studies of digitally-mediated higher education can equally rest on small and localised instances of practice as well as on cross-boundary or institutional explorations, and offers ways of thinking that are informed by Latour’s philosophical anthropology.

Citation

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

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 27, 2022
Online Publication Date Feb 23, 2023
Publication Date 2023
Deposit Date Jan 31, 2023
Publicly Available Date Apr 17, 2023
Journal Higher Education Research and Development
Print ISSN 0729-4360
Electronic ISSN 1469-8366
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 42
Issue 7
Pages 1748-1761
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2174086
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1181486

Files


Published Journal Article (1.5 Mb)
PDF

Publisher Licence URL
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Copyright Statement
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.




You might also like



Downloadable Citations