Understanding and Enacting Social Change in Education: Working with Bourdieu
Category: Event
Keywords: Bourdieu, Resistance and agency in education, Inclusive pedagogies, Redistributive policies, Practice-based interventions
This one-day conference builds on this rich body of scholarship while deliberately shifting the analytical focus from the reproduction of inequality and domination to the possibilities for struggle and social change in and through education. In this light, we invite contributions that critically engage with Bourdieu’s work to understand and work with processes of resistance, transformation, and agency within educational fields and institutions. The conference will foreground the educational experiences, pathways, and trajectories of students from traditionally underrepresented or marginalised backgrounds. Particular attention will be given to empirical and theoretical work examining inclusive pedagogies, compensatory and redistributive policies, institutional approaches, and everyday practices that aim to challenge entrenched inequities. Contributions may address formal and informal educational settings, comparative or single-country perspectives, and different stages of the life course. The conference also welcomes contributions from teachers, practitioners, and educators that, while not explicitly drawing on Bourdieu’s theoretical framework, offer reflexive accounts of practice or practice-based interventions aimed at transforming educational contexts to foster inclusion and social justice.
Initiator(s):
British Sociological Association - Bourdieu Study Group
Deadline: 23.02.2026
Event
Understanding and Enacting Social Change in Education: Working with Bourdieu
11.06.2026 09:30 - 18:30
Post created by: Virginia Signorini