Bourdieu for educators : policy and practice /: policy and practice. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Fenwick W. English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ; Cheryl L. Bolton, Staffordshire University.
• Other Names: English, Fenwick W; Bolton, Cheryl L
• Contents: Chapter 1: Introducing Pierre Bourdieu to Educational Practitioners; Bourdieu’s Biography; Vielseitigkeit: What is Distinctive About Bourdieu; Understanding the Nature of Pedagogic Work as Political Struggle; The “Culture Wars” in the U.S. and the U.K.: Similarities and Differences; The Battle Over the Correct Academic Subjects and Proper Pedagogic Work; The Concept of Misrecognition and How It Works; Some History with Misrecognition in the Past; Building Awareness of the Forces at Play; Without New Eyes: The Blinders of Doxa as Orthodoxy; Bourdieu as the Public Intellectual, Activist and Provocateur; Chapter 2: Unmasking the School Asymmetry and the Social System; Bourdieusian Cornerstones; Bourdieu’s Concept of Habitus; An Example of Neighborhood Habitus; A Case Study of How Family Habitus Works to Shape Career Aspirations; The Intersection of Class, Social Space and the Field; An Example of a Field with Its Own Logic; The Cultural Arbitrary; The Plight of Minority Children Facing the Dominant Cultural Arbitrary in Schools; How the System Works as a Game; Who Benefits from Schools as They Are?; Illuiso and Unquestioned Loyalty to Continuing Orthodoxies; The Bounded Nature of Choice Within a Designated Social Space; Educational Inequalities Must Remain Unnamed; Connecting the Dots: The Importance of Family in School Success; The Challenge of Reducing Social Inequality as an Educational Goal; Chapter 3: The Curriculum, Qualifications and Life Chances; The Three Forms of Capital; Empirical Validation of the Impact of Social Capital on School Success; The Power of Cultural Capital and Bourdieu’s Own Experience as a Student; Schools as Institutionalized Embodiments of Forms of Cultural Capital; Capital, Power, Symbolic Violence, and Scholastic Habitus; Two Recent Examples of Symbolic Power (Violence) with School Curricula; Social Origin and School Success: Historical and Continuing Evidence of the Linkage Between Them; Academic Failure as the “Fault” of the Student?; Academic Credentials—Essential Capital?; The Hidden Curriculum, Cultural Values and Schooling Success; Calculating Life Chances: The Academic vs. Vocational Education Debate; The Issue of the Mal-Distribution of Opportunity; Chapter 4: The Shifting Control of Leadership Preparation; The Construction of National Leadership Standards in the U.K. and the U.S; The Major Epistemological Steps Behind National Standards; Core Technologies and the Reification of the Status Quo; The Shifting Nature of the Contestation and Changer in Power in the Education Field; The De-Contextualization of School Leaders via Job Standardization; The Reformers Blinkered Vision for Change: They Just Don’t See It; Chapter 5: A Retrospective Look at Bourdieu’s Impact; The Social Field of Education is Not Static; Education Is Simultaneously a Means and an End; Schooling as the Cultural Arbitrary Demonizes Those who are “Otherized”; The Dominant Consumer Culture in Education Undermines Its Moral and Humanistic Value; Educational Reform Will Always Benefit and Advantage the Reformers; The Dilemma of School Leadership, Agent of the State or of Humanity?;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (144 pages)
• Subjects: 306.43; Educational sociology; Educational change; Educational leadership; Education -- Standards; Teachers -- Salaries, etc; Performance standards
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483315959; 1483315959
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