Outline of a Theory of Practice.
About: This article is published in Contemporary Sociology.The article was published on 1980-03-01. It has received 14683 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Practice theory.
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TL;DR: In recent years, citizens in many countries have been on the receiving end of a wave of interest from governments, NGOs, donors and lenders in ways of involving them more actively in shaping decisions that affect their lives as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: In recent years, citizens in many countries have been on the receiving end of a wave of interest from governments, NGOs, donors and lenders in ways of involving them more actively in shaping decisions that affect their lives. Innovative experiments in governance have opened up spaces for public involvement in deliberation over policies and a greater degree of control over certain kinds of resources (Fung and Wright 2000, Goetz and Gaventa 2001). Levering open arenas once closed off to citizen voice or public scrutiny, these moves have helped to widen political space for citizens to play more of a part in shaping some of the decisions that affect their lives. Forms of political participation associated with liberal democracy have come to be complemented with a new architecture of democratic practice, built on familiar foundations and offering ambiguous new political opportunities. Whether in budgeting, policy dialogue, planning, project appraisal, poverty assessment, monitoring or evaluation, ‘participatory’ alternatives to expert-driven processes have gained ground.1 These moves have given rise to new interactions and institutions, blurring old boundaries and creating new configurations of power and resistance.
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TL;DR: This chapter explains why the notion of cultural practices has been appealing to developmental researchers and introduces the conceptual framework for the volume.
Abstract: This chapter explains why the notion of cultural practices has been appealing to developmental researchers and introduces the conceptual framework for the volume.
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TL;DR: This paper argued that women's status in the Western world has improved enormously, but the revolution that would make women and men truly equal has not yet occurred, and argued that the reason is that gender divisions stil...
Abstract: Women’s status in the Western world has improved enormously, but the revolution that would make women and men truly equal has not yet occurred. I argue that the reason is that gender divisions stil...
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TL;DR: The authors examined how, through a process of social construction, forms of capital are a basis for instructional leadership and found that teachers construct influential others as leaders on the basis of valued forms of human, cultural, social, and economic capital.
Abstract: Using data from observations and interviews with 84 teachers at eight Chicago public elementary schools, this article examines how, through a process of social construction, forms of capital are a basis for instructional leadership. The authors argue that teachers construct influential others as leaders on the basis of valued forms of human, cultural, social, and economic capital. Moreover, the construction of leadership for instruction is often situated in various types of interactions (e.g., subject area) and varies by the leaders' position. Although the teachers in the study constructed school administrators as leaders largely on the basis of cultural capital, they constructed other teachers as leaders on the basis of human and social capital as well as cultural capital. Understanding the role of different species of capital in the construction of leadership will help researchers specify mechanisms that support professional learning arid change in schools
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose that there is transformative potential in Bourdieu's theoretical constructs and that these suggest possibilities for schools and teachers to improve the educational outcomes of marginalised students.
Abstract: This article is concerned with the theoretical constructs of Bourdieu and their contribution to understanding the reproduction of social and cultural inequalities in schooling. While Bourdieu has been criticised for his reproductive emphasis, this article proposes that there is transformative potential in his theoretical constructs and that these suggest possibilities for schools and teachers to improve the educational outcomes of marginalised students. The article draws together three areas of contribution to this theme of transformation; beginning by characterising habitus as constituted by reproductive and transformative traits and considering the possibilities for the restructuring of students’ habitus. This is followed by a discussion of cultural capital and the way that teachers can draw upon a variety of cultural capitals to act as agents of transformation rather than reproduction. The article concludes by considering the necessity of a transformation of the field to improve the educational outcome...
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