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Southampton Education School

Bourdieu, Reflexivity and Method Seminar

Time:
12:00 - 13:00
Date:
25 January 2018
Venue:
University of Southampton Building 32, Room 2097

Event details

I want to consider applications of Bourdieu’s theory of practice to educational research. I will look at the history of his work, my own examples and the implications all this has for using his ideas. Since reflexivity is a popular aspect of educational research practice, I want to consider what this means for those using Bourdieu. The key message of the talk is that Bourdieu has been rather misused and there is a better way of adopting his approach. I hope the talk will shed some light on Bourdieusian practice for those who are interested in using his approach, and possibly get others to reconsider their own research projects in terms of his method.

Speaker information

Professor Michael Grenfell ,is Visiting Professor at the Southampton Education School having worked there full-time from 1989-2009. Since then he has been 1905 Chair of Education at Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland and Head of School at Stirling University.

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