Institutional ethnography and actor-network theory: A framework for researching the assessment of trainee teachers

Ethnography and Education

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 345-357

  Tummons, Jonathan ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Assessment; Institutional ethnography; Teachertraining

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960645104     PISSN: 17457823     EISSN: 17457831     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17457823.2010.511444     Document Type: Article

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