1st Edition
Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education
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 present both theoretical and practical articulation of his ideas in the field of literacy education. It brings together three major clusters of work:
- Rethinking of the doxa of the social fields of language and literacy education
- Explorations of alternative objectifications of educational fields forming around cultural and linguistic minorities, new media and technologies
- Studies on the formation of the literate habitus in homes and classrooms, curriculum and schooling, and addresses theoretical, policy and practical directions
Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education is intended for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in literacy education, sociology of education, and curriculum theory, and as a text for advanced courses in these areas.
@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
James Albright is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. He taught English language arts at the elementary, middle and high schools in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada for 22 years. He has worked on several pedagogical initiatives in both Canada and the US. Graduating from the Pennsylvania State University in 1999, he taught and conducted research at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City. He is the past-chairperson of the Critical Perspectives in Literacy Committee of the International Reading Association.
Allan Luke is a Professor at the Centre for Learning Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He is currently developing new research projects in early literacy, accountability and assessment, and comparative pedagogies.
"... 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
