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15A Review of “High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education” (review)Educational Studies: A Jrnl of the American Educ. Studies Assoc 45 (1): 90-94. 2009.
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1Pierre Bourdieu (edited book)A&C Black. 2014.The French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu was a key thinker about education and educational processes in the second half of the twentieth century. He made his name in seminal texts such as The Inheritors and Reproduction in which he analysed academic discourse and showed how differences in cultural capital led to different outcomes for those who passed through school and university. His concepts of Habitus and Field have since been used extensively in educational research. This book begins by s…Read more
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13Charting the circuitous route toward religious libertyModern Intellectual History 2 (1): 109-120. 2005.
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30Basil Bernstein: the thinker and the fieldRoutledge. 2013.The book provides a detailed yet clear introduction to the sociology of Basil Bernstein that will be accessible to those not already familiar with it, but also of interest to those who are. It locates his thinking within the history of the field of British sociology in his life-time, explores the classical sources in Durkheim and Marx, and shows how a world-wide network of scholars continues to apply and further develop his ideas. His later ideas about knowledge structures are applied to Bernste…Read more
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