Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:02:34 +0100 Subject: Re: bourdieu - education - mathematics From: John Evans <jevans-AT-eircom.net> Not globalisation, not economism, but neoliberalism! Here it is: UTOPIA OF ENDLESS EXPLOITATION The essence of neoliberalism http://mondediplo.com/1998/12/08bourdieu Best Wishes John Evans PS Not from the horse's mouth, but interesting, is Margaret Brown on the National Numeracy Strategy in the UK. PDF autodownload at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/education/research/ Brown_BERA99_ValuesNNS.doc.pdf > From: John Evans <jevans-AT-eircom.net> > Reply-To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:01:17 +0100 > To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > Subject: Re: bourdieu - education - mathematics > > Hi Andy > > I cannot put my hand just now on an interview or article concerning > economism or globalisation (or similar) in which Bourdieu remarks that > mathematics is increasing used as an instrument of symbolic violence by > elites to put forward arguments that are (as it were) unanswerable, because > phrased in mathematical form. "Sorry folks, its not just my opinion - look > at the maths/look at the graph....". Can anyone help with the reference? > > More helpfully (I hope): > > You could check out the following: > Practical Reason (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998), > p. 28 - mathematics as *the* form of excellence used to rank students > p. 78 - illusio in the mathematical field > > The State Nobility (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996) examines how elite > schools ensure the legitimate inheritance of high positions in the > scientific and aesthetic fields. See also Bourdieu and Passeron, > Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture (London: Sage, 1977), p. 50, > n. 44, p. 176, pp. 164 - 165 etc. The theoretical character of instruction > as a filter to distinguish (say) the technician from the engineer (maths is > often used to do this in scientific subjects such as engineering etc). > > Practical Reason, p. 137 - the scientific mode as one of the fundamental > modes of constructing reality. An ethical/political programme of working to > universalise the conditions of access to such fundamental modes is set out. > Also, presumably, such modes are to be contrasted with the cultural > arbitrary (see the Preface to Reproduction in Education..) > > Homo Academicus - for the (high, aristocratic) position of mathematics in > the hierarchy of university subjects. > > "Structuralism and Theory of Sociological Knowledge", Social Research 35, > no. 4 (Winter), cited in P. Bourdieu and Loc J. D. Wacquant, An Invitation > to Reflexive Sociology, p. 222 - this is a nod in the direction of his study > of mathematics as a normalien. The origins of the homology of social > positions, tastes, etc. mediated by habitus (claimed by Bourdieu) probably > lie here. An attempt to explain homology turns up in Practical Reason, p. 6. > The style of the lay-out of Reproduction in Education... is very like a > geometry (Descartes?). > > The State Nobility, pp. 119 - 120 - very interesting discussion of the > symbolic dimension of a title (educational credential) and and the technical > dimension. > > Best Wishes > > Dr John Evans > Dublin > > > >> From: Andrew Noyes <Andrew.Noyes-AT-nottingham.ac.uk> >> Reply-To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:55:44 +0100 >> To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >> Subject: bourdieu - education - mathematics >> >> Could anyone direct me to any writing by Bourdieu that considers the >> role of mathematics in education and society. >> >> If you could I would be very grateful >> Thanks >> >> Andy Noyes >> >> Andrew Noyes >> Centre for the Study of Mathematics Education >> School of Education >> The Dearing Building >> Jubilee Campus >> Wollaton Road >> Nottingham >> NG8 1BB >> >> tel: +44 (0) 115 9514470 >> email: andrew.noyes-AT-nottingham.ac.uk >> web: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/education >> >> ********************************************************************** >> Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >> Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >> Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu >> > > ********************************************************************** > Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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