Pierre Bourdieu : education and training

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Pierre Bourdieu : education and training

Michael James Grenfell

(Continuum library of educational thought, v. 2)

Continuum International, c2007

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

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Description

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.This volume is part of a major international reference series that provides 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 covered in the series include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.

Table of Contents

  • Intellectual biography
  • Critical exposition of the thinker's work
  • The reception and influence of the work
  • The relevance of the work today
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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