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Public Sociology As Educational Practice Eurig Scandrett (Queen Margaret University)

Public Sociology As Educational Practice By Eurig Scandrett (Queen Margaret University)

Public Sociology As Educational Practice by Eurig Scandrett (Queen Margaret University)


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Leading academics reflect on concepts and aspects of public sociology education in this perceptive collection of case studies, linked by critical dialogue between contributors. They consider publics, practices and special knowledges in the field, and go beyond academia's boundaries to explore the purposes and targets of sociological knowledge.

Public Sociology As Educational Practice Summary

Public Sociology As Educational Practice: Challenges, Dialogues and Counter-Publics by Eurig Scandrett (Queen Margaret University)

Leading academics take a distinctive new approach to the understanding of public sociology education in this perceptive new resource. Through pedagogical case studies and inter-contributor dialogues, they develop and challenge thinking in the field. Divided into three sections on the publics, knowledges and practices of public sociology education, it looks beyond the boundaries of academia to deliver fresh responses to key disciplinary questions including the purposes and targets of sociological knowledge. For students, academics and practitioners, it is a timely and thought-provoking contribution to debate about public sociology education.

About Eurig Scandrett (Queen Margaret University)

Eurig Scandrett is Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader in Public Sociology at Queen Margaret University, and an activist in University and College Union Scotland.

Table of Contents

Introduction ~ Eurig Scandrett Section 1 ~ Publics Provocation I: Class, Gender and Identity: Axes of Structure and Difference in Subaltern Counter-Publics ~ Eurig Scandrett Mad peoples' history and identity: education in the construction of mad studies ~ Elaine Ballantyne, Kirsten Maclean, Shirley-anne Collie, Liz Deeming and Esther Fraser 'Seeing things differently': gender justice and counter-hegemony in higher education ~ Lesley Orr and Nel Whiting Domestic abuse survivors: public sociology and the risks of speaking out ~ Julie Young A Public Sociology for Post-industrial Fife ~ Paul Gilfillan Public Sociology and the invisibility of class ~ Eurig Scandrett Dialogue I ~ Eurig Scandrett and Paul Gilfillan Section 2 ~ Knowledge Provocation II: 'Really Useful' public sociology knowledge ~ Eurig Scandrett Crossing the Quadrant: Policy Research and Public Sociology ~ Jan Law Convergences between public sociology, feminist theory and the praxis for refugee and asylum-seeking integration in Scotland ~ Laura Lovin Young people, alcohol, dialogical methods ~ Emma Wood Knowledge generated through participatory research with children ~ Maria Giatsi Clausen English Last: Displaced Publics and Communicating Multilingually as Social Act and Art ~ Alison Phipps, Tawona Sithole, Naa Densua Tordzro and Gameli Tordzro The Construction, Role And Influence Of 'Public Knowledge' Within Community Planning Partnerships ~ Marion Ellison Dialogue II ~ Eurig Scandrett, Marion Ellison and Laura Lovin Section 3 ~ Practices Provocation III: Public Sociology Practices, Privatising Universities ~ Eurig Scandrett Precarity as an existential phenomenon within a post-industrial labour market ~ Phil Mignot and Ricky Gee Student - Public - Sociologist: On dialogue with our first public, and in widening access to higher education ~ Karl Johnson Experts by experience: Art, identity and the sociological imagination ~ John Docherty-Hughes, Elaine Addington, David Bradley, Linda Brookhouse. Jenny Bunting, Lorna Cosh, John Dane, Robert Lindsay and Christine Raffaelli Community engagement: cultivating critical awareness ~ Jim Crowther and Mae Shaw Reflections on five years of critical service learning: is it critical or are we social justice dreamers? ~ Sharon Hutchings and Andrea Lyons Lewis Trade unionism as collective education ~ Lena Wanggren Dialogue III ~ Eurig Scandrett, Jim Crowther, Sharon Hutchings, Karl Johnson, Mae Shaw, Lena Wanggren Conclusion ~ Eurig Scandrett

Additional information

NGR9781529201420
9781529201420
152920142X
Public Sociology As Educational Practice: Challenges, Dialogues and Counter-Publics by Eurig Scandrett (Queen Margaret University)
New
Paperback
Bristol University Press
2022-03-01
396
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