Pierre Bourdieu : education and training / Michael James Grenfell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grenfell, Michael, 1953- author.

Series:

Continuum library of educational thought ; v. 2.

Continuum library of educational thought ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.

Bourdieu, Pierre.

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Educational sociology.

Sociologists--France--Biography.

Sociologists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft. Pierre Bourdieu is indisputably a major thinker in education. Michael Grenfell's volume offers the most coherent account of Bourdieu's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography Critical exposition of Bourdieu's work The reception and influence of Bourdieu's work and The relevance of the work today."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Intellectual biography

Critical exposition of the thinker's work

The reception and influence of the work

The relevance of the work today

Bibliography (including references to electronic resources)

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [257]-269) and index.

ISBN:

9781441135810

1441135812

9781472541482

1472541480

9781472518743

1472518748

9781441146953

1441146954

OCLC:

890723781