Educational Doctorates and the Transformation of Knowledge : A Bourdieusian Analysis

by Taysum, Alison

• ISBN13: 9781441111623
• ISBN10: 144111162X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-09-06
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

This monograph explores the distinctive elements of the Educational Doctorate (EdD): it affords professional educationalists the chance to become knowledge producers, knowledge transformers and agents of change within their educational communities, taking responsibility for establishing curriculum, pedagogy and the moral purpose of these within educational communities. Alison Taysum theorizes upon these issues using Bourdieu's theory of practice and the thinking tools of culture, habitus, and misrecognition. She explores how the EdD makes such intellectual work possible by introducing educational professionals to the different kinds of knowledge that exist in "the knowledge economy". She argues that some kinds of knowledge are privileged above others which effectively excludes people who do not have what Bourdieu calls the required "capital" to engage/critique current knowledge discourses. Taysum shows that the EdD is distinctive, affording people the chance to have a good look at different kinds of knowledge, and the HEI becomes a site for the democratization of knowledge.>