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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Ethnographies across Virtual and Physical Spaces: A Reflexive Commentary on a Live Canadian/UK Ethnography of Distributed Medical Education
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Tummons, Jonathan; Macleod, Anna; Kits, Olga – Ethnography and Education, 2015
This article draws on an ongoing ethnography of distributed medical education (DME) provision in Canada in order to explore the methodological choices of the researchers as well as the wider pluralisation of ethnographic frameworks that is reflected within current research literature. The article begins with a consideration of the technologically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Education, Ethnography, Distance Education
Institutional Ethnography and Actor-Network Theory: A Framework for Researching the Assessment of Trainee Teachers
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Tummons, Jonathan – Ethnography and Education, 2010
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Tutors, Higher Education