1st Edition

Educational Leadership and Pierre Bourdieu

By Pat Thomson Copyright 2017
192 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

Pierre Bourdieu was one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He argued for, and practiced, rigorous and reflexive scholarship, interrogating the inequities and injustices of modern societies. Through a lifetime’s explication of the ways in which schooling both produces and reproduces the status quo, Bourdieu offered a powerful critique and method of analysis of the history of... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Introducing Pierre Bourdieu  3. Why Bring Bourdieu to the Study of Educational Leadership?  4. Applying Bourdieu to ELMA  5. Applying Bourdieu to ELMA Helen Gunter  6. Applying Bourdieu to ELMA  7. Thinking with and against Bourdieu

Biography

Pat Thomson PSM, PhD, FAcSS is Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. She is a Visiting Professor at the University of the Free State, South Africa, Deakin University, Australia and The University of Iceland.