Abstract:On the educational mode of existence: Latour, meta-ethnography and the social institution of education This article constitutes an argument for both the use and expansion of the philosophical anthropology of Bruno Latour, as established in his recent work An Inquiry into Modes of Existence (AIME; 2012). Drawing on ethnographies of education as a methodology for empirical inquiry and specifically on meta-ethnography as a methodology for establishing objectivised knowledge concerning education in a manner that i… Show more
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