49.064 - Revisiting Longitudinal Language Ethnographies: The Case of Bourdieu and Reflexivity

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The session focuses on the outcomes of ‘re-visiting’ longitudinal language ethnographies developed in educational contexts from a Bourdieusian perspective. Bourdieu is an influential social theorist whose work has been applied in numerous studies over the past four decades. A key feature of his approach is reflexivity. The session takes a series of educational ethnographies at its core and ‘re-visits’ them in the light of reflexive Bourdieu’s approach. The aim is to illustrate how this revisiting was carried out and what results. Empirical exemplification will include examples from education, language and literacy. Finally, an explicit rationale and framework will be set out to guide future educational workers who wish to build on this approach in their own work.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Language and Social Processes

Chair

• Michael James Grenfell, University of Southampton - Highfield

Papers

• Looking Inside and Out: Researcher as Self-and-Other - Cheryl A. McLean, Rutgers University

• Reflexive Layers and Revisiting Research: What Might We Know Across Time? - Catherine F. Compton-Lilly, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Working Through Self-Reflexivity in the Contexts of Critical Literacy Research - Rob Simon, University of Toronto; Gerald Campano, University of Pennsylvania

• The University as the "Imagined Other": Making Sense of Community-Coproduced Literacy Research - Kate Heron Pahl, The University of Sheffield

• Bourdieu, Language, and Reflexivity: In Theory and Practice - Michael James Grenfell, University of Southampton - Highfield

Discussant

• Joanne C. Larson, University of Rochester