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Social Theory and Education Research: Understanding Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu and Derrida book cover

2nd Edition

Social Theory and Education Research Understanding Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu and Derrida

Edited By Mark Murphy Copyright 2022
290 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Social Theory and Education Research is an advanced and accessible text that illustrates the diverse ways in which social theories can be applied to educational research methodologies. It provides in-depth overviews of the various theories by well-known and much-debated thinkers – Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Derrida – and their applications in educational... Read more

Part I: Introduction

  1. Social theory and education research: An introduction (Mark Murphy)

  2. Social theory and methodology in education research: From conceptualisation to operationalisation (Mark Murphy and Cristina Costa)　

    3. Part II: Foucault　

  3. Foucault and his acolytes: Discourse, power and ethics (Julie Allan)

  4. Retooling school surveillance research: Foucault and (post)panopticism (Andrew Hope)

  5. Using Foucault to examine issues of girls’ education in a religiously driven postcolonial-security state (Ali Sameer)

    6. Part III: Habermas

  6. Jürgen Habermas: Education’s increasingly recognized hero (Terence Lovat)

  7. Between the state and the street: Habermas and education governance (Mark Murphy)

  8. Applying Habermas’ theory of communicative action in an analysis of recognition of prior learning (Fredrik Sandberg)

    9. Part IV: Bourdieu

  9. Bourdieu and educational research: Thinking tools, relational thinking, beyond epistemological innocence (Shaun Rawolle and Bob Lingard)

  10. Research in Christian Academies: Perspectives from Bourdieu (Elizabeth Green)

  11. Bourdieu applied: Exploring perceived parental influence on adolescent students’ educational choices for studies in higher education (Irene Kleanthous)

    12. Part V: Derrida

  12. Derrida and educational research: An introduction (Jones Irwin)

  13. ‘Derrida applied’: Derrida meets Dracula in the geography classroom (Christine Winter)

  14. Engaging with student teachers on reflective writing: Reclaiming writing (Duncan Mercieca)

Biography

Mark Murphy is Reader in Education and Public Policy at the University of Glasgow, UK.

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