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Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education book cover

1st Edition

Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education

Edited By James Albright, Allan Luke Copyright 2008
392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge
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In this volume scholars from around the world focus on how a Bourdieusian stance can enable a powerful socicultural and cultural analysis of literacy education theory and practice and serve as an effective tool in analyzing relations of hierarchy and domination. Although there has been a growing body of Bourdieusian-inspired research in various sectors of education, this book is the first to... Read more

@contents: Selected Contents:

Preface, James Albright and Allan Luke

Part One: Objectifying the Field

1. Introduction: Renewing the Cultural Politics of Literacy Education, James Albright and Allan Luke

2. Problematics and Generative Possibilities, James Albright

3. Pierre Bourdieu: A Biographical Memoir, Claire Kramsch

4. Bourdieu and "Literacy Education", Monica Heller

5. Pedagogy as Gift, Allan Luke

Part Two: Producing the Field

6. The Field of Arabic Instruction in the Zionist State, Allon J. Uhlmann

7. Wireless Technology and the Prospect of Alternative Education Reform, Mark Dressman and Phillip Wilder

8. Towards a Pedagogy of the Popular: Bourdieu, Hip-Hop, and Out-of-School Literacies, Marc Lamont Hill

9. Critical Race Perspectives, Bourdieu and Language Education, Rachel Grant and Shelley Wong

Part Three: Habitus and Other

10. Tracing Habitus in Texts: Narratives of Loss, Displacement and Migration in Homes, Kate Pahl

11. The Capital of "Attentive Silence" and Its Impact on English Language and Literacy Education, Tara Goldstein

12. Improvising on Artistic Habitus: Sedimenting Identity into Art, Jennifer Rowsell

13. Social Hierarchies and Identity Politics, Jessica Zacher

14. A "Head Start and a Credit": Analyzing Cultural Capital in the Basic Writing/ESOL Classroom, Mary Jane Curry

15. Implications of Practice, Activity, and Semiotic Theory for Cognitive Constructs of Writing, Robert J. Bracewell and Stephen P. Witte

Part Four: Remaking the Field

16. Learning from Our Failures,  James Albright

17. Using Bourdieu to Make Policy: Mobilising Community Capital and Literacy, Allan Luke

Postscript, James Collins

Biography

Albright, James; Luke, Allan

"... a unique attempt to deepen current understanding and use of Bourdieu in educational theory and practice. This volume promises to be a leading resource for literacy researchers seeking to investigate the theories of Bourdieu."

Joanne Larson, University of Rochester, New York, United States

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