Pierre Bourdieu and literacy education / edited by James Albright and Allan Luke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Albright, James, 1950-

Luke, Allan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy--Social aspects.

Literacy.

Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.

Bourdieu, Pierre.

Physical Description:

xii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

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:

Part I Objectifying the field 1

1 Introduction: renewing the cultural politics of literacy education / James Albright, Allan Luke 3

2 Problematics and generative possibilities / James Albright 11

3 Pierre Bourdieu: a biographical memoir / Claire Kramsch 33

4 Bourdieu and "literacy education" / Monica Heller 50

5 Pedagogy as gift / Allan Luke 68

Part II Producing the field 93

6 The field of Arabic instruction in the Zionist state / Allon J. Uhlmann 95

7 Wireless technology and the prospect of alternative education reform / Mark Dressman, Phillip Wilder 113

8 Toward a pedagogy of the popular: Bourdieu, hip-hop, and out-of-school literacies / Marc Lamont Hill 136

9 Critical race perspectives, Bourdieu, and language education / Rachel A. Grant, Shelley D. Wong 162

Part III Habitus and other 185

10 Tracing habitus in texts: narratives of loss, displacement and migration in homes / Kate Pahl 187

11 The capital of "attentive silence" and its impact on English language and literacy education / Tara Goldstein 209

12 Improvising on artistic habitus: sedimenting identity into art / Jennifer Roswell 233

13 Social hierarchies and identity politics / Jessica Zacher 252

14 A "head start and a credit": analyzing cultural capital in the basic writing/ESOL classroom / Mary Jane Curry 279

15 Implications of practice, activity, and semiotic theory for cognitive constructs of writing / Robert J. Bracewell, Stephen P. Witte 299

Part IV Remaking the field 317

16 Learning from our failures / James Albright 319

17 Using Bourdieu to make policy: mobilizing community capital and literacy / Allan Luke 347.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780805856873

0805856870

9780203937501

0203937503

OCLC:

152580655