Lately I’ve been reading Paul Ricoeur’s book The course of recognition, as I have a strong interest in all things relational. I came to Ricoeur’s work, however, long after I first encountered Charles Taylor, Nancy Fraser and in particular Axel Honneth, one of the reasons why he doesn’t figure much in my recent paper (co-written with Tony Brown) Learning as… Read more →
[image (c) Eric Bézine] Vincent Dupriez recently delivered a presentation at Glasgow University entitled ‘Social Inequalities of Post-secondary Educational Aspirations: influence of social background, school composition and institutional context’ [the published paper with the same title can be found here]. This is the abstract of the paper: The first goal of this article is to assess, for each country belonging… Read more →
[image, University College Cork, (c) Kman999] This post is a response to a question from Rille Raaper, a PhD student at the University of Glasgow, in response to my recent seminar - find the original comment here. What a great question you ask Rille, and one that certainly deserves much more attention than it currently gets - my interpretation of your question… Read more →
Hello, my name is Dave Talbot. I am a 2nd year PhD student looking at the nature of interdisciplinarity in higher education, and practical undergraduate pedagogies around it. And I’m having a major social theory problem. The problem is: how much social theory understanding is enough for a thesis intended to present a pragmatic recommendation? At what point is… Read more →
[image (c) Le service photo du Conseil général du Val-de-Marne] In this post, Irene talks about her use of Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas in her successfully defended PhD – for more detail see her chapter in the forthcoming book Social Theory and Education Research…. In my PhD I explored adolescent students’ perceptions of parental influence and their dispositions to study mathematically-demanding… Read more →
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