Category: Bourdieu
Class mobility and the ‘limbo identity’
While one’s class position can cause identity issues, it is also the case that the great promise...
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Reflections of an Ed Tech Counsellor in the context of COVID-19
Amidst COVID-19 outbreak, I was fortunate to prepone my ticket and go back to my family in India...
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Call for Chapters: Social theory, digital education and the Global South: Critical perspectives
Call for chapter submissions for a new edited collection, entitled: Social theory, digital...
Read MoreWhose involvement has capital? The application of Bourdieu’s thinking tools for the study of parental involvement.
All parents want the best education for their children (Vincent 2017), but not all parental actions are created equal (Lareau 2015). One of the explanations of this phenomenon provided in the literature has been the fact that...
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Bourdieu and Reflexivity: opportunities through the habitus clivé?
I was recently asked to present as part of a master class on Bourdieu and Higher Education...
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Using Bourdieu to analyse journalist-source relations
It’s easy to think of journalism as a product. The news is what we read, watch, or hear. A thing....
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Reconsidering the Technologies of Intellectual Inquiry
For some time now I have been intrigued by the fact that very few people have used Bourdieu’s...
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Academic voice and the governance of Universities
Academic governance involves overseeing teaching and research within universities and protecting...
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A critique of ‘A Digital Learning and Teaching Strategy for Scotland’ – Part 2
Following from Part 1… it is important to highlight the importance of this strategy as a key step...
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The Aspirations and Decisions of Young People from the South Wales Valleys
[This is a blog post based on a forthcoming presentation at the British Education Research...
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Losing sleep over habitus
During the dark days of my PhD, particularly when working graveyard shifts at my hotel, I used to...
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Social class, place and the limits of habitus
[This post is part of a series – click here for the first blog] Mark and Christina’s presentation...
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