Bourdieu and the Field of Education Policy : Understanding globalization, mediatization, implementation

The work of the late French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has had huge impact on the social sciences and the field of education studies.Within education, however, the main focus has been his early work on the reproduction of inequality through schooling which as made effective usage of his concepts of habitus and capitals.The concepts of field and practice have been to some extent neglected and there has been limited usage of his methodological approach, which he described as ‘field work in philosophy’, as well as neglect of its underpinning epistemology.In Bourdieu and the Fields of Education Policy, the authors utilize the entire raft of Bourdieu’s ‘thinking tools’ and apply them to the study and analysis of education policy in a world of globalization, with its related flows, policyscapes, rapid communication and mediatization of processes of educational governance.The authors argue that in the context of both globalization and mediatization of education policy processes, Bourdieu’s c