Social Theory and Education Research

Mark Murphy has worked at King's College London since May 2011 as a Lecturer in higher education. He has held previous posts at the University of Chester, where he was Programme Leader for education studies in the Faculty of Education and Children's Services, and as a Lecturer in education and Programme Director of a post-compulsory teacher training programme at the University of Stirling. Mark is an active researcher in the fields of education and public policy. Current areas of research interests, as reflected in his various publications, include accountability in education, educational sociology and social theory, the politics of public sector reform, the critical theory of J rgen Habermas and Axel Honneth, political economy, lifelong learning and EU social policy.

VOLUME ONE Knowledge Exchange with Sistema Scotland - Julie Allan et al 'Classification' and 'Judgement' - Stephen Ball et al Social Class and the 'Cognitive Structures' of Choice of Higher Education Cultural Capital, Ambition and the Explanation of Inequalities in Learning Outcomes - Carlo Barone A Comparative Analysis 'Problematizing' Inclusion - Patty Douglas Education and the Question of Autism Does Cultural Capital Really Affect Academic Achievement? New Evidence from Combined Sibling and Panel Data - Mads Meier Jager Unequal Power Relations and Inclusive Education Policy-Making - Anastasia Liasidou A Discursive-Analytic Approach Choice Paths in the Swedish Upper Secondary Education - Stefan Lund A Critical Discourse Analysis of Recent Reforms Playing the Game - Kym Macfarlane Examining Parental Engagement in Schooling in Post-Millennial Queensland Between Common and College Knowledge - Mark Murphy and Ted Fleming Exploring the Boundaries between Adult and Higher Education Fields and Institutional Strategy - Rajani Naidoo Bourdieu on the Relationship between Higher Education, Inequality and Society Storming Parents, Schools and Communicative Inaction - Stewart Ranson, Jane Martin and Carol Vincent Education for Everyone - Palle Rasmussen Secondary Education and Social Inclusion in Denmark 'It's All Becoming a Habitus' - Diane Reay Beyond the Habitual Use of Habitus in Educational Research A Habermasian Analysis of a Process of Recognition of Prior Learning for Health-Care Assistants - Fredrik Sandberg Family Capital and the Invisible Transfer of Privilege - Teresa Toguchi Swartz Intergenerational Support and Social Class in Early Adulthood Cultural Capital and Family Involvement in Children's Education - Loizos Symeou Tales from Two Primary Schools in Cyprus Cultural Capital or Relative Risk Aversion? Two Mechanisms for Educational Inequality Compared - Herman van de Werfhorst and Saskia Hofstede Elite Higher Education Admissions in the Arts and Sciences - Anna Zimdars, Alice Sullivan and Anthony Heath Is Cultural Capital the Key? VOLUME TWO Assessment in Educational Practice - Dennis Atkinson Forming Pedagogized Identities in the Art Curriculum Self, Others and Society - Alan Booth, Monica McLean and Melanie Walker A Case Study of University Integrative Learning Teachers in the School House Panopticon - Mary Bushnell Complicity and Resistance Symbolic Violence and the Neighbourhood - Paul Connelly and Julie Healy The Educational Aspirations of 7-8 Year-Old Working-Class Girls Confession, In-Service Training and Reflective Practices - Andreas Fejes Muscularity, the Habitus and the Social Construction of Gender - Trish Gorely, Rachel Holroyd and David Kirk Towards a Gender-Relevant Physical Education Neo-Liberalism, Lifelong Learning and the Homeplace - Patricia Gouthro Problematizing the Boundaries of 'Public' and 'Private' to Explore Women's Learning Experiences The Provocation of Plaiting Palm Leaves - Jens Henrik Haahr Habermas, Foucault and Media Presentations of Education in Danish Television Theatre of the Self - Rachel Holmes Autobiography as Performance N? W?hine Mana: A Post-Colonial Reading of Classroom Discourse on the Imperial Rescue of Oppressed Hawaiian Women - Julie Kaomea Representational and Territorial Economies in Global Citizenship Education - Elisabet Langmann Welcoming the Other at the Limit of Cosmopolitan Hospitality Higher Education, Pedagogy and the 'Customerization' of Teaching and Learning - Kevin Love Lifeworld or Systemsworld - Sarah Nelson, Maria de la Colina and Michael Boone What Guides Novice Principals? Doing Derrida down under - Sharn Rocco A Matter of (Feminist) Response-Ability Making Citizens Governable? The Crick Report as Governmental Technology - Jessica Pykett Processes of Middle-Class Reproduction in a Graduate Em