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Field (Bourdieu)
About: Field (Bourdieu) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 11421 publications have been published within this topic receiving 180769 citations.
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TL;DR: Students who develop a strong interest in another field but who leave computer science because of a lack of interest in this field may not be a good target for retention efforts.
Abstract: Students who develop a strong interest in another field can hardly be fair target for retention efforts. There are others, however, who might do very well in this field but who leave computer scien...
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TL;DR: Using Bourdieu's theory of practice, the authors explored the contemporary histories of the field of education management in England and Wales, using the thinking tools of habitus and field to explore oral texts produced from interviews with current and past field members.
Abstract: Using Bourdieu’s theory of practice this article explores the contemporary histories of the field of education management in England and Wales. The thinking tools of habitus andfield are used to explore oral texts produced from interviews with current and past field members. These oral texts contain the professional biographies of field members in which the struggle for an academic–practitioner habitus, in context and over time, is revealed from withinthe stories of professional practice. While our engagement with sociological theories has been the target of political attack on educational research, it is argued that such inquiries enableus to gain new insights into the complexities and creativity of knowledge production within thechoices we make as a part of our lives and work. Thinking with habitus and field opens up possibilities for field development through conceptualizing position, and enables us to see the traps located in accepting positioning.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the forms of appropriation from Pierre Bourdieu's work in the field of Brazilian education, based on research carried out in 20 specialised educational periodicals, published between 1971 and 2000.
Abstract: Based on research carried out in 20 specialised educational periodicals, published between 1971 and 2000, the present text analyses the forms of appropriation from Pierre Bourdieu's work in the field of Brazilian education. The set of 355 articles published in those periodicals that make reference to the sociologist constitutes the basic corpus for the analysis of the peculiarities of the Brazilian interpretations of this author.
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