Pierre Bourdieu is regarded as one of the foremost social philosophers of the twentieth century. His output included extensive studies of education, culture, art and language. He went beyond being a sociologist to being regarded in the same 'public intellectual' role as Sartre, de Beauvoir and Foucault.Issues surrounding language permeate Bourdieu's entire oeuvre. Although he did undertake empirical studies on language in a range of contexts, very little of this was published. This book redresses this balance; it sets out what Bourdieu has to say about language and why, and exemplifies...
Pierre Bourdieu is regarded as one of the foremost social philosophers of the twentieth century. His output included extensive studies of education...
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 setting his intellectual development within his own biography and then...
The French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu was a key thinker about education and educational processes in the second half of the twentieth century....
Language Learner Strategies combines principles with research and classroom practice, providing a new view of language learning to inform policy and teaching methodology. Divided into three parts, the book draws links between language learning theory in the established research literature, the authors' own empirical studies and the implications for curriculum policy and teacher education.
Focusing primarily on listening, reading and memorisation strategies in the 12 - 15 year age range learning modern foreign languages such as French, German, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, the...
Language Learner Strategies combines principles with research and classroom practice, providing a new view of language learning to inform po...
Language Learner Strategies combines principles with research and classroom practice, providing a new view of language learning to inform policy and teaching methodology. Divided into three parts, the book draws links between language learning theory in the established research literature, the authors' own empirical studies and the implications for curriculum policy and teacher education.
Focusing primarily on listening, reading and memorisation strategies in the 12 - 15 year age range learning modern foreign languages such as French, German, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, the...
Language Learner Strategies combines principles with research and classroom practice, providing a new view of language learning to inform po...
