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Knowledge and Identity
What in the digital era is knowledge? Who has knowledge and whose knowledge has value? Postmodernism has introduced a relativist flavour into educational research such that big questions about the purposes of education have tended to be eclipsed by minutiae. Changes in economic and financial markets induce a sense that we are also experiencing an intellectual credit crunch. Societies can no longer afford to think about the role of education merely in relation to national markets and national citizenry. There is growing recognition that, once again, we need big thinking using big theoretical ideas in working on local problems of employability, sustainability and citizenship. Drawing on aspect...
Curriculum and the Specialization of Knowledge
This book presents a new way for educators at all levels - from early years to university - to think about curriculum priorities. It focuses on the curriculum as a form of specialised knowledge, optimally designed to enable students to gain access to the best knowledge available in any field. Papers jointly written by the authors over the last eight years are revised for this volume. It draws on the sociology of knowledge and in particular the work of Emile Durkheim and Basil Bernstein, opening up the possibilities for collaborative inter-disciplinary enquiry with historians, philosophers and psychologists. Although primarily directed to researchers, university teachers and graduate students, its arguments about specialised knowledge have profound implications for policy makers.
Knowledge and Knowers
We live in ‘knowledge societies’ and work in ‘knowledge economies’, but accounts of social change treat knowledge as homogeneous and neutral. While knowledge should be central to educational research, it focuses on processes of knowing and condemns studies of knowledge as essentialist. This book unfolds a sophisticated theoretical framework for analysing knowledge practices: Legitimation Code Theory or ‘LCT’. By extending and integrating the influential approaches of Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein, LCT offers a practical means for overcoming knowledge-blindness without succumbing to essentialism or relativism. Through detailed studies of pressing issues in education, the boo...
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Pédagogie, contrôle symbolique et identité
Traduction de Ginette Ramognino Le Déroff et Philippe Vitale Ce livre aborde une question centrale pour les sciences sociales, les sciences de l'éducation et, plus largement, pour quiconque s'intéresse aux pratiques pédagogiques : existe-t-il des principes généraux sociologiques qui sous-tendent la transformation du savoir dans la transmission pédagogique ? Selon Basil Bernstein, depuis leur genèse, les sciences sociales se sont centrées essentiellement sur les messages pédagogiques et leurs bases institutionnelles et idéologiques. Elles n'ont pas étudié la nature du relais qui rend possibles les messages. Dans cet ouvrage, l'auteur analyse cette énigme et propose une théorie générale de la pratique pédagogique nourrie d'exemples issus d'enquêtes et de réflexions sur la méthodologie de recherche. Le sociologue montre in fine comment les dispositifs pédagogiques peuvent modifier la transmission de la connaissance, sa diffusion, sa répartition, mais aussi la transformation de l'identité et de la conscience et comment ces processus sont indirectement liés aux domaines économiques et politiques.
Critical Conversations on Knowledge, Curriculum and Epistemic Justice
This edited collection that celebrates the legacy of Suellen Shay, is located in Higher Education Studies and Development in South Africa, the country where she lived and worked. The book has international reach as the authors engage in contemporary debates around how to think about knowledge in education development work, in professional education and more recently around the call to decolonise the curriculum. Contributions draw on the social realist tradition in the sociology of education to discuss how curricula are or should be structured, in order to make key forms of knowledge accessible to students. The collection includes theoretical debates related to the field of higher education studies as well as chapters that analyse curricula and assessment in engineering, the health professions, tourism and music – including the impact on curricula of interdisciplinary collaboration across different types of institution and knowledge. This book will be important for scholars wanting to transform how universities and colleges think about curriculum design and practice. It was originally published as a special issue of Teaching in Higher Education.
Anthropologies de La Réunion
La quatrième de couverture indique : "La complexité du "laboratoire réunionnais", comme beaucoup de chercheurs ont l'habitude d'appeler La Réunion, s'amplifie aujourd'hui du fait de son insertion croissante dans l'espace global animé par la circulation d'idées, d'objets et de personnes. Ses logiques et dynamiques propres semblent échapper à la compréhension nuancée de sa réalité et, parfois, engendrer des interprétations rapides et schématiques. Sur la base de recherches de terrain, cet ouvrage veut rendre compte de la complexité sociale et culturelle de la société réunionnaise contemporaine en examinant ses différentes facettes dans un seul et même livre. Les chercheurs ...
