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23 SES 11 B, Radical Social Theory for Radical Times: Putting Theory to Work in Educational Research I
Symposium, Part 1
Contribution
Many educational researchers find Bourdieu’s concepts attractive and useful, though there is great variability in what we might call ‘depth in use’. Undoubtedly, some usage remains superficial or ‘habitual’ (Hey, 2003; Reay, 2004). This paper begins with an overview of an ESRC-funded study (see e.g. James et al, 2010; Reay, Crozier and James, 2011) that investigated ‘against the grain’ choices of secondary school made by white middle class families in three English cities. Having located practices of school choice in the international context (Forsey et al, 2008), we looked at motives, experiences and outcomes. The paper sets out how the study used Bourdieusian theory-as-method to develop an account of practices at both the individual and the collective levels. In rejecting mainstream indicators of quality, the families concerned avoided one very common form of misrecognition, but at the same time other forms of misrecognition remained key to their engagements with education. The analysis shows how actions that are ethically driven at the individual level can contribute to the collective reproduction of existing relations of advantage and disadvantage. I argue that the approach taken offers a critical purchase on the individualising discourse of ‘choice’, leading to an important but uncomfortable analysis.
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Programme by Networks, ECER 2021
00. Central Events (Keynotes, EERA-Panel, EERJ Round Table, Invited Sessions)
Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
Network 3. Curriculum Innovation
Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
Network 7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education
Network 8. Research on Health Education
Network 9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement
Network 10. Teacher Education Research
Network 11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance
Network 12. LISnet - Library and Information Science Network
Network 13. Philosophy of Education
Network 14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research
Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
Network 16. ICT in Education and Training
Network 17. Histories of Education
Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
Network 30. Research on Environmental und Sustainability Education
Network 31. Research on Language and Education (LEd)
Network 32. Organizational Education
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