"'Michael Grenfell's contribution to the Continuum Library of Educational Thought is to provide a full and comprehensive guide to this influential yet often misunderstood scholar. This splendid volume... helps us to make sense of the work of Bourdieu as a whole.' Gary McCulloch, Brian Simon Professor of the History of Education, Institute to Education, University of London"

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.This volume is part of a major international reference series that provides 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 covered in the series include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.
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Pierre Bourdieu is a major thinker in education. This volume offers an account of Bourdieu's educational thought. It is divided into: a biography; a critical exposition of Bourdieu's work; the reception and influence of Bourdieu's work; and the relevance of his work.
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Intellectual biography; Critical exposition of the thinker's work; The reception and influence of the work; The relevance of the work today; Bibliography; Index.
Pierre Bourdieu is indisputably a major thinker in education. Michael Grenfell's volume offers the most coherent account of Bourdieu's educational thought.
Volume Two in Continuum's Library of Educational Thought provides a comprehensive guide to this influential yet often misunderstood scholar.

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, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.

Advisory Board: Robin Barrow (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Peter Gronn (University of Glasgow, UK), Kathy Hall (University of Ireland, Ireland), Stephen Heyneman (Vanderbilt University, USA), Yung-Shi Lin (Taipei Municipal University of Education, Republic of China, Taiwan), Gary McCulloch, Institute of Education, University of London, UK), Jurgen Oelkers (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Richard Pring (University of Oxford, UK), Harvey Siegel (University of Miami, USA), Richard Smith (University of Durham, UK), Zhou Zuoyu (Beijing Normal University, People's Republic of China).

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ISBN
9780826484017
Publisert
2007-11-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Vekt
594 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
288

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Biographical note

Michael Grenfell is Professor in the School of Education, University of Southampton. He has researched and published extensively in Applied Linguistics and the Philosophy of Education. He had a longstanding association with Bourdieu and is author of four other books on his work, including Agent Provocateur (Continuum).