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Lew Zipin – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2025
Philosophical anthropologies (PAs) -- ontological assumptions about human species-nature -- have long faced Foucauldian post-structural rejection of their value and legitimacy in explaining sociological problematics. In this article I endorse Bourdieu's resistance to a post-PA momentum, arguing that PAs need assuming in sociological research. In…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Anthropology, Marxian Analysis, Educational Research
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Marco Pitzalis; Emanuela Spanò – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2023
The article analyses the circularity of symbolic and structural forms of domination, feeding the field of expertise, and the school field in a country such as Italy, historically characterised by a deep divide between north and south; this led to the emergence of the so-called "Southern Question". We aim to bring into the international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Geographic Regions, Regional Characteristics
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Conte, Mino – European Educational Research Journal, 2019
The paper critically discusses the neoliberal politics of knowledge and the soft normative regime that steers and directs the material condition of existence of educational research, starting from the case of Italy. The fundamental aspects, which regard the form, the ends (and indirectly the content) of a research, are to a substantial degree…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Neoliberalism, Politics of Education
Taxel, Joel – 1981
This paper discusses the relevance of the neo-Marxist perspective (critical theory) to educational theory and practice, with partictular emphasis on the implications of this perspective for educational researchers and educators involved in teacher education programs. For purposes of comparative analysis, it also provides a brief overview of basic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research
Mojab, Shahrzad; Gorman, Rachel – 2001
Political and economic upheavals in the 1990s have left their mark on adult education. A major source of change is globalization of the capitalist economy and its restructuring, which make extraordinary demands on education, particularly adult education. Lifelong learning has become an ideological distraction shifting the burden of increasing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Capitalism, Consciousness Raising, Economic Change