Part I: Introduction

Social theory and education research: An introduction (Mark Murphy)

Social theory and methodology in education research: From conceptualisation to operationalisation (Mark Murphy and Cristina Costa)

Part II: Foucault

Foucault and his acolytes: Discourse, power and ethics (Julie Allan)

Retooling school surveillance research: Foucault and (post)panopticism (Andrew Hope)

Using Foucault to examine issues of girls’ education in a religiously driven postcolonial-security state (Ali Sameer)

Part III: Habermas

Jürgen Habermas: Education’s increasingly recognized hero (Terence Lovat)

Between the state and the street: Habermas and education governance (Mark Murphy)

Applying Habermas’ theory of communicative action in an analysis of recognition of prior learning (Fredrik Sandberg)

Part IV: Bourdieu

Bourdieu and educational research: Thinking tools, relational thinking, beyond epistemological innocence (Shaun Rawolle and Bob Lingard)

Research in Christian Academies: Perspectives from Bourdieu (Elizabeth Green)

Bourdieu applied: Exploring perceived parental influence on adolescent students’ educational choices for studies in higher education (Irene Kleanthous)

Part V: Derrida

Derrida and educational research: An introduction (Jones Irwin)

‘Derrida applied’: Derrida meets Dracula in the geography classroom (Christine Winter)

Engaging with student teachers on reflective writing: Reclaiming writing (Duncan Mercieca)

About the Author

Mark Murphy is Reader in Education and Public Policy at the University of Glasgow, UK.

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