{"product_id":"bourdieu-for-educators-9781412996594","title":"Bourdieu for Educators","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEducational change and reform on a larger scale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eBourdieu for Educators: Policy and Practice\u003c\/strong\u003ebrings the revolutionary research and thinking of Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) of France to public educational leaders in North America, Canada, Australia, and the U.K. This text brings Bourdieu's work into the arena of elementary and secondary educational reform and change, and offers policy, research, and practice discussions. Authors Fenwick W. English and Cheryl L. Bolton use Bourdieu to challenge the standards movement in different countries, the current vision of effective management, and the open-market notion connecting pay to performance. The text shows that connecting pay to performance won't improve education for the poorest group of school students in the U.S., Canada, or the U.K., regardless of how much money is spent trying to erase the achievement gap. The authors lay out the bold educational agenda of Pierre Bourdieu by demonstr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is excellent. Dr. English and Cheryl L. Bolton do a masterful job in explaining how educational leadership is actually under attack by outside forces. The landscape has changed significantly due to political forces disguised by accreditation initiatives. [...] \u003cem\u003eBourdieu for Educators\u003c\/em\u003e with the application of Dr. English′s ideas and insights is absolutely essential reading and adoption for those wanting to rescue the field of educational leadership and administration from the \"Billionnaires Boys Club\" and many other destructive factions.\u003cbr\u003e   -- Dr. William Kritsonis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Introducing Pierre Bourdieu to Educational Practitioners    Bourdieu’s Biography    Vielseitigkeit: What is Distinctive About Bourdieu    Understanding the Nature of Pedagogic Work as Political Struggle    The “Culture Wars” in the U.S. and the U.K.: Similarities and Differences    The Battle Over the Correct Academic Subjects and Proper Pedagogic Work    The Concept of Misrecognition and How It Works    Some History with Misrecognition in the Past    Building Awareness of the Forces at Play    Without New Eyes: The Blinders of Doxa as Orthodoxy    Bourdieu as the Public Intellectual, Activist and Provocateur Chapter 2: Unmasking the School Asymmetry and the Social System    Bourdieusian Cornerstones    Bourdieu’s Concept of Habitus    An Example of Neighborhood Habitus    A Case Study of How Family Habitus Works to Shape Career Aspirations    The Intersection of Class, Social Space and the Field    An Example of a Field with Its Own Logic    The Cultural Arbitrary    The Plight of Minority Children Facing the Dominant Cultural Arbitrary in Schools    How the System Works as a Game    Who Benefits from Schools as They Are?    Illuiso and Unquestioned Loyalty to Continuing Orthodoxies    The Bounded Nature of Choice Within a Designated Social Space    Educational Inequalities Must Remain Unnamed    Connecting the Dots: The Importance of Family in School Success    The Challenge of Reducing Social Inequality as an Educational Goal Chapter 3: The Curriculum, Qualifications and Life Chances    The Three Forms of Capital    Empirical Validation of the Impact of Social Capital on School Success    The Power of Cultural Capital and Bourdieu’s Own Experience as a Student    Schools as Institutionalized Embodiments of Forms of Cultural Capital    Capital, Power, Symbolic Violence, and Scholastic Habitus    Two Recent Examples of Symbolic Power (Violence) with School Curricula    Social Origin and School Success: Historical and Continuing Evidence of the Linkage Between Them    Academic Failure as the “Fault” of the Student?    Academic Credentials—Essential Capital?    The Hidden Curriculum, Cultural Values and Schooling Success    Calculating Life Chances: The Academic vs. Vocational Education Debate    The Issue of the Mal-Distribution of Opportunity Chapter 4: The Shifting Control of Leadership Preparation    The Construction of National Leadership Standards in the U.K. and the U.S.    The Major Epistemological Steps Behind National Standards    Core Technologies and the Reification of the Status Quo    The Shifting Nature of the Contestation and Changer in Power in the Education Field    The De-Contextualization of School Leaders via Job Standardization    The Reformers Blinkered Vision for Change: They Just Don’t See It Chapter 5: A Retrospective Look at Bourdieu’s Impact    The Social Field of Education is Not Static    Education Is Simultaneously a Means and an End    Schooling as the Cultural Arbitrary Demonizes Those who are “Otherized”    The Dominant Consumer Culture in Education Undermines Its Moral and Humanistic Value    Educational Reform Will Always Benefit and Advantage the Reformers    The Dilemma of School Leadership, Agent of the State or of Humanity?","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769440600407,"sku":"9781412996594","price":51.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781412996594.jpg?v=1758721104","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bourdieu-for-educators-9781412996594","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}