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  • Social Justice Dispositions in Schools

    Thinking with Bourdieu, Reading Dispositions in Practice

    Series series Routledge Research in the Sociology of Education
    Against the backdrop of equity-sensitive approaches within education policy and practice, inequalities in student attainment remain a persistent problem. In response, this book advances the concept of social justice dispositions (SJDs), offering a new perspective by shifting the focus to what operates between the values and beliefs of policymakers and educators and the actual everyday practice ... Read more

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  • Practice Methodologies in Education Research

    Practice Methodologies in Education Research offers a fresh approach to researching practice in education. Addressing a major gap in research methodology scholarship, it highlights how integral practice theory is to the transformational agendas of education research, introducing a theory of activist practice methodologies informed by expansive theories of practice.With contributions from leading ... Read more

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  • Practice Theory and Education

    Diffractive readings in professional practice

    Practice Theory and Education challenges how we think about ‘practice’, examining what it means across different fields and sites. It is organised into four themes: discursive practices; practice, change and organisations; practising subjectivity; and professional practice, public policy and education.Contributors to the collection engage and extend practice theory by drawing on the legacies of ... Read more

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  • Policy and Inequality in Education

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book is an edited collection introducing the Education Policy and Social Inequality series, and presents chapters from authors on the editorial board. It investigates relations between educational policy and social inequality, not simply in terms of policy solutions for inequalities but also how education policy frames, creates and at times exacerbates social inequalities. It adopts a ... Read more

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  • Schooling in Disadvantaged Communities

    Playing the Game from the Back of the Field

    Series series Education (R0)
    Based on a study of one secondary school located in a disadvantaged community in Australia, this book provides a different perspective on what it means to ‘play the game’ of schooling. Drawing on the perspectives of teachers, parents and students, this book is a window through which to explore the possibilities of schooling in disadvantaged communities. The authors contend that teachers, parents ... Read more

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    The book introduces both theoretical and applied perspectives, identifying and explaining the relevant frameworks and drawing on a range of activities/examples of how gender is constructed in discourse.The book is divided into three parts. Part I covers the historical background to the study of gender and language, moving on through past theoretical approaches to a discussion of current debates in ... Read more

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    Leading family sociologist David Morgan revisits his highly influential 'family practices' approach in this new book. Exploring its impact, and how it has been critiqued, Morgan shows the continued relevance of the approach with reference to time and space, the body, emotions, ethics and work/life balance. ... Read more

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  • Facilitating Practitioner Research

    Developing Transformational Partnerships

    Facilitating Practitioner Research: Developing transformational partnerships addresses the complex dilemmas and issues that arise in practitioner inquiry. It recognises that facilitating practitioner research is far more than providing advice about method adoption, important as that contribution is; or even modelling research practices and drawing ... Read more

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    Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture

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  • The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation

    Outlining sociology’s distinctive contribution to childhood studies and our understanding of contemporary children and childhood, The Sociology of Children, Childhood and Generation provides a thought provoking and comprehensive account of the connections between the macro worlds of childhood and the micro worlds of children’s everyday lives.Examining children’s involvement in areas such as the ... Read more

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  • Emerging Approaches to Educational Research

    Tracing the Socio-Material

    The last fifteen years have seen much conceptual and methodological innovation in research on education and learning across the lifecourse, bringing both fresh insights and new dilemmas. This innovation was initially fuelled by the growing influence of conceptual framings often named as either post-structural or postmodern. The works of Foucault, Derrida and Lyotard have variously found their way ... Read more

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