Pierre Bourdieu

by Michael James Grenfell, Richard Bailey (Editor)

Overview

A major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.
Pierre Bourdieu is indisputably a major thinker in education. Michael Grenfell's volume offers the most coherent account of Bourdieu's educational thought. This work is divided into:
Intellectual biography
Critical exposition of Bourdieu's work
The reception and influence of Bourdieu's work and The relevance of the work today.
A major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.
Pierre Bourdieu is indisputably a major thinker in education. Michael Grenfell's volume offers the most coherent account of Bourdieu's educational thought. This work is divided into:
Intellectual biography
Critical exposition of Bourdieu's work
The reception and influence of Bourdieu's work and The relevance of the work today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826484017
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/15/2008
Series:	Continuum Library of Educational Thought , #2
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Michael James Grenfell has held Chairs at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland and the University of Southampton where he is now based. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, Australia. He has an extensive background of research on Language and Linguistics, and the work of Pierre Bourdieu. He is the author/ editor of several books including: Modern Languages Across the Curriculum (2002), Bourdieu, Language and Linguistics (2011); Language, Ethnography and Education (2012); and Bourdieu: Key Concepts (2012).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I
1. Bourdieu - Personally Speaking

Part II
2. Algeria
3. Education and Training
4. Media and Culture

Part III
5. Economics
6. Acts of Resistance
7. Raison d'Etre

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index