education research|Social Theory Applied

Making a case for social theory in education research

I was interviewed recently by Dr. Philip Tonner, Director of The Hutcheson’s Centre for...

Article: Thomas, N. (2012). Love, rights and solidarity: Studying children’s participation using...

Book review of: Social Theory and Education Research. Edited by Mark Murphy. Routledge: Oxon. 2013...

This is the latest blog post in relaton to the BERA 2013 conference – the actual...

How do people – research students in particular – make sense of large amounts of qualitative data?...

Thesis Eleven is the most famous of Karl Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach, and goes like this: ...

A first in a series of posts on power (this one based on the classic edited text Power in...

Yesterday, a blog post came to my attention on Twitter. Written by ‘Angry...

Article: Mary O’Donoghue (2013): Putting working-class mothers in their place: social...

Youth is not just a biological category; it’s also a societal invention. This may sound like...

Top of the class: Isaac Gottesman (2013): Socialist revolution: Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and...

Thanks to last week’s publication of results from the Great British Class Survey (GBCS) in the...