Topic
Field (Bourdieu)
About: Field (Bourdieu) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 11421 publications have been published within this topic receiving 180769 citations.
Papers published on a yearly basis
Papers
More filters
TL;DR: The authors explored how the push to data influences teacher work and subsequent student learning and found that teachers' engagement with various forms of regionally and centrally sanctioned, and often standardized, measures of attainment, typically expressed in numbers, can reveal a "field of schooling practices" characterized by concerns about collecting, analysing and improving numeric data; standardized and centrally sanctioned data as forms of capital of increasing value; and a teaching disposition/habitus characterized by constant monitoring of student performance through virtual and physical data bases.
Abstract: This article draws upon research in one school in Queensland, Australia, to explore how the push to data influences teacher work and subsequent student learning. This ‘rise of data’, often oriented towards ‘external’ and performative processes of accountability, exhibits itself in many ways, but is particularly evident in teachers’ engagement with various forms of regionally and centrally sanctioned, and often standardized, measures of attainment, typically expressed in numbers. Drawing upon the sociology of numbers, and Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of ‘field’, ‘habitus’ and ‘capital’, the research shows how the emphasis upon data collection reveals a ‘field of schooling practices’ characterized by concerns about collecting, analysing and improving numeric data; standardized and centrally sanctioned data as forms of capital of increasing value; and a teaching disposition/habitus characterized by constant monitoring of student performance through virtual and physical data bases. The research reveals ...
34 citations
TL;DR: This paper presents an overview of agent-based models and its application to the field of transport planning, and discusses the challenges needed to be overcome for the further growth ofAgent-based modeling in theField of transport.
34 citations
01 Dec 2011
34 citations
Book•
01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: The book Doing business with the poor as discussed by the authors is a great catalyst for provoking thought and action, and the market needed some examples of practical examples on the ground to highlight practical examples.
Abstract: The book Doing business with the poor is a great catalyst for provoking thought and action. A timely launch too UN-CSD12, New York, 26 April 2004 the market needed some examples. I have already sent copies to some of my network and am looking forward to the next series. As a centre that conducts research and develops curriculum on this topic we are grateful for your contribution of highlighting practical examples on the ground.
34 citations
TL;DR: This paper used a field experiment using Twitter bots to socially sanction users engaged in racist harassment and found that the field experiment was more successful than the one we were conducting as a grad student.
Abstract: My first publication as a grad student was a field experiment using Twitter “bots” to socially sanction users engaged in racist harassment. The ascendant paradigm in quantitative social science emp...
34 citations