Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education [Paperback]

In this volume scholars from around the world focus on how a Bourdieusian stance can enable a powerful socicultural and cultural analysis of literacy education theory and practice and serve as an effective tool in analyzing relations of hierarchy and domination. Although there has been a growing body of Bourdieusian-inspired research in various sectors of education, this book is the first to present both theoretical and practical articulation of his ideas in the field of literacy education. It brings together three major clusters of work:

• Rethinking of the doxa of the social fields of language and literacy education
• Explorations of alternative objectifications of educational fields forming around cultural and linguistic minorities, new media and technologies
• Studies on the formation of the literate habitus in homes and classrooms, curriculum and schooling, and addresses theoretical, policy and practical directions

Pierre Bourdieu and Literacy Education is intended for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in literacy education, sociology of education, and curriculum theory, and as a text for advanced courses in these areas.

@contents: Selected Contents:

Preface, James Albright and Allan Luke

Part One: Objectifying the Field

1. Introduction: Renewing the Cultural Politics of Literacy Education, James Albright and Allan Luke

2. Problematics and Generative Possibilities, James Albright

3. Pierre Bourdieu: A Biographical Memoir, Claire Kramsch

4. Bourdieu and Literacy Education , Monica Heller

5. Pedagogy as Gift, Allan Luke

Part Two: Producing tl3*