Social theory and education research / edited by Mark Murphy.

Includes bibliographical references.

volume 1. Inequality, inclusion and education: -- Knowledge exchange with Sistema Scotland / Julie Allan, Nikki Moran, Celia Duffy, and Gica Loening -- 'Classification' and 'judgement': social class and the 'cognitive structures' of choice of higher education / Stephen J. ball, Jackie Davies, Miriam David and Diane Reay -- Cultural capital, ambition and the explanation of inequalities in learning outcomes: a comparative analysis / Carlo Barone -- 'Problematising' inclusion: education and the question of Autism / Patty Douglas -- Does cultural capital really affect academic achievement?: New evidence from combined sibling and panel data / Mads Meier Jaegar -- Unequal power relations and inclusive education poicy making: a discursive analytic approach / Anastasia Liasidou -- Choice paths in the Swedish upper secondary education- a critical discourse analysis of recent reforms / Stefan Land -- Playing the game: examining engagement in schooling in post-millennial Queensland / Kym Macfarlane -- Between common and college knowledge: exploring the boundaries between adult and higher education / Mark Murphy and Ted Fleming -- Fields and institutional strategy: Bourdieu on the relationship between higher education, inequality, and society / Rajani Naidoo -- Storming parents, schools and communicative inaction / Steward Ranson, Jane martin, and Carol Vincent -- Education for everyone: secondary education and social inclusion in Denmark / Palle Rasmussen -- 'It's all becoming a habitus'" beyond the habitual use of habitus in educational research / Diane Reay A Habermasian analysis of a process of recognition of prior learning for health care assistants / Fredrik Sandberg -- Family capital and the invisible transfer of privilege: intergenerational support and social class in early adulthood / Teresa Toguchi Swartz -- Cultural capital and family involvement in children's education tales from two primary schools in Cyprus / Loizos Symeou -- Cultural capital or relative risk aversion? two mechanisms for educational inequality compared / Herman G. van de Werfhorst and Saskia Hofstede -- Elite higher education admissions in the arts and sciences: is cultural capital the key? / Anna Zimdars, Alice Sullivan and Anthony Heath.

volume 2. Identities: notions of educational selves and subjectivities: -- Assessment in educational practice: forming pedagogised identities in the art curriculum / Dennis Atkinson -- Self, others and society: a case study of university integrative learning / Alan Booth, Monica McLean and Melanie Walker -- Teachers in the schoolhouse panopticon: complicity and resistance / Mary Bushnell -- Symbolic violence and the neighbourhood: the educational aspirations of 7-8 year old working-class girls / Paul Connolly and Julie Healy -- Confession, in-service training and reflective practices / Andreas Fejes -- Muscularity, the habitus and the social construction of gender: towards a gender-relevant physical education / Trish Gorely, Rachel Holroyd and David Kirk -- Neoliberalism, lifelong learning, and the homeplace: problematizing the boundaries of 'public' abd 'private' to explore women's learning experience / Patricia A. Gouthro -- The provocation of plaiting palm leaves: Habermas, Foucault and media presentations of education in Danish television / Jens Henrik Haahr -- Theatre of the self: autobiography as performance / Rachel Holmes -- Nā wāine mana: a postcolonial reading of classroom discourse on the imperial rescue of oppressed Hawaiian women / Julie Kaomea -- Representational and territorial economies in global citizenship education: welcoming the other at the limit of cosmopolitan hospitality / Elisabet Langmann -- Higher education, pedagogy and the 'customerisation' of teaching and learning / Kevin Love -- Lifeworld or systemsworld: what guides novice principles? / Sarah W. Nelson, Maria G. de la Colina and Michael D. Boone -- Making citizens' governable? the Crick report as governmental technology / Jessica Pykett -- Processes of middle-class reproduction in a graduate employment scheme / Sarah Smart with Merryn Hutchings, Uvanney Maylor, Healther Mendick and Ian Menter -- Sex education as disciplinary technique: policy and practice in England and Wales / Nicki Thorogood -- 'Urban, but not too urban': unpacking teachers' desires to teach urban students / Dyan Watson -- Representations of substitute teachers and the paradoxes of professionalism / Lisa Weems.

volume 3. Teaching and learning: curricular and pedagogical practice: -- The return of the subaltern: international education and politics of voice / Alireza Asgharzadeh -- Academic writing as shaping and re-shaping / Graham Badley -- Deconstructive religious education / Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast and Zohreh Khosravi -- Witnessing deconstruction in education: why quasi-transcendentialism matters / Gert Biesta -- Beyond description and prescription: towards conductive assessment in social work education / Barry Cooper and Patricia Broadfoot -- A Foucauldian reading of learning in feminist, nonprofit organizations / Leona M. English -- Facilitative leadership: drawing on Jürgen Haabermas' model of ideal speech to propose a less impositional way to lead / Mick Fryer -- MBA lecturers' curriculum interests in leadership / Eric Jean Garcia -- Ways of seeing: using ethnography and Foucault's 'toolkit' to view assessment practices differently / Mary Hill -- Teacher effects on social and behavioral skills in early elementary school / Jennifer L. Jennings and Thomas A. DiPrete -- Supervision as metaphor / Alison Lee and Bill Green -- Ways of knowing in doctoral examination: how well is the doctoral regime? / Terence Lovat, Allyson Holbrook and Sid Bourke -- Jacques Derrida's religion with/out religion and the im/possibility of religious education / Siebren Miedema and Gert J.J. Biesta -- Derrida, teaching and the context of failure / Ian Munday -- Reason, language and education: philosophical assumptions for new curricular orientations / Marianna Papastephanou and Mary Koutselini -- Questions of knowledge in Australian media education / Robyn Quin -- Some thoughts for a new critical language of education: truth, justification and deliberation / Klas Roth -- Power in operation: a case study focussing on how subject-based knowledge is constrained by the methods of assessment in GCE A Level dance / Lorna Sanders -- Teacher education for Muslim women: intercultural relationships, method and philosophy / Alison Scott-Baumann -- Teaching the other/writing the other: Derrida and the ethics of the ethnographic text / Peter Pericles Trifonas -- Toward as account of teaching general thinking skills that is compatible with the assumptions of sociocultural theory / Rupert Wegerif -- Doing justice to geography in the secondary school: deconstruction, invention and the national curriculum / Christine Winter.

volume 4. Governance and management: performativity, audit cultures and accountability: -- National policy and the implementation of recognition of prior learning in a Swedish municipality / Per Andersson -- The idea of a world university: can Foucauldian research offer a vision of educational futures? / Ansgar Allen -- Early childhood and care in England: when pedagogy is wed to politics / Carol Aubrey -- Unpacking neo-liberal technologies of government in Australian higher education social work departments / Uschii Bay -- Quality and equality: the mask of discursive conflation in education policy texts / Donald Gillies -- Teacher professional development as an effect of policy and practice: a Bourdieuian analysis / Ian Hardy and Bob Lingard -- CCTV, school surveillance and social control / Andrew hope -- Exploring the value of Bourdieu's framework in the context of institutional change / Bruce Kloot -- dt Globalizing policy sociology in education: working with Bourdieu / Bob Lingard, Shawn Rawolle and Sandra Taylor -- Revisiting Jürgen Häbermas's notion of communicative action and its relevance for South African school governance: can it succeed? / Nonceba Mabovula -- Global field and global imagining: Bourdieu and worldwide higher education / Simon Marginson -- .Governmentality versus choice in contemporary special education / Angela Morgan -- Bureaucracy and its limits: accountability and rationality in higher education / Mark Murphy -- Work, identity and the quasi-market: the FE experience / Rob Smith -- The politics of health as a school-sponsored ethnic: Foucault, neoliberalism, and the unhealthy employee / Carolyn Vander Schee.