à paraître: Mike Grenfell, Language, Ethnography, and Education Bridging New Literacy Studies and Bourdieu

Mike Grenfell
Language, Ethnography, and Education
Bridging New Literacy Studies and Bourdieu
Routledge
Publish Date: 1st June 2011



Présentation de l'éditeur
Offering an in-depth discussion of Bourdieu, New Literacy Studies and education, this frontline book provides a useful reference point for scholars and students of education, language, and literacy wishing to incorporate Bourdieu’s ideas into their work.

There is a well established tradition of using ethnographic perspectives to study classroom practice. What this volume contributes is two distinctive approaches to the social study of education in general and literacy in particular: New Literacy Studies and Bourdieusian sociology, both integrated with such ethnographic perspectives.

The guiding principle behind the structure of this book is how it develops and unfolds dialogically. More than just a set of stand-alone chapters around social perspectives on language interactions in classrooms, this ‘integrated text’:

* provides practical examples of New Literacy Studies and Bourdieu used in ethnographic classroom contexts

* offers a synthesis considering the practical examples in terms of the range of issues of theory and method presented

* extends and develops many of the questions and issues raised in terms of a future practical research agenda

Beyond the field of education, language in education, classroom ethnography, and literacy, scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines in which Bourdieu attracts attention also will find this volume relevant.