The educational imagination and the sociology of education in Australia

Matthews, Julie

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“…Nevertheless, we argue that a well informed sociological curiosity is more relevant than ever for teachers (see also Matthews, 2012). Schools continue to be structured around sociological categories (gender, class, religion); the rural/urban divide continues to determine access to educational opportunities; and credentialism governs more workplaces.…”

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“…While we may lament this, a breadth/depth conundrum is better than teacher education with neither sociological breadth nor depth. With Matthews (2012), we suggest that sociology departments could better contribute to a rigorous, strongly classified sociology of education to augment the embedded work of service sociology, and to champion the disciplinary identity. More generally, by dignifying the professional uptake…”

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Teaching sociology within teacher education: Revisiting, realigning and re-embedding

Doherty

Dooley

Woods

2013

Journal of Sociology

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This article uses theoretical resources from the sociology of education to consider the teaching of sociology in teacher education programs in Australia. Once a disciplinary 'pillar' of teacher education, sociology's contribution has become less explicit while more integrated, with consequences for disciplinary identity. Here we explore how sociology is taught in teacher education curricula on two fronts. First we outline how sociology is embedded as one of a number of competing perspectives in foundational studies, and its pedagogic consequences. Then we consider the powerful contribution of sociology in literacy studies, amidst public debate about literacy performance. The analysis draws on Bernstein's distinction between singular disciplinary curriculum design and practically oriented regional curriculum design. We seek to trouble the common-sense binary between theory and practice that structures debates around professional education in higher education more broadly, and to dignify service sociology as a valuable, generative site for the discipline's future.

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Teaching sociology within teacher education: Revisiting, realigning and re-embedding

Doherty

Dooley

Woods

2013

Journal of Sociology

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“…Imagination was also found mentioned in literature as educational imagination . Educational imagination as described by Matthews (2013) is basically an imagination specific to a discipline, in this case education or to be more exact, the sociology of education. It is therefore, not really a type or dimension of imagination as are the other previously mentioned uses of imagination.…”

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Condon

2014

Nurs Sci Q

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Teaching-learning environments in nursing education encourage students to think and recall hordes of factual information while checking off a skills list too numerous to mention. In efforts to impart all of this information to students, has the use of imagination been ignored? The author in this column presents a discussion on imagination. First, there is a discussion of the literature, followed by a discussion of imagination in light of the humanbecoming school of thought. A glimpse at the presence of imagination in qualitative research methodologies is also highlighted. The author also presents the limits of imagination, and perhaps, its fading existence in current teaching-learning practices. The column concludes with encouragement toward a greater utilization of imaginative thought in nursing pedagogies.

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The Role of Education

Aslaksen¹

2020

The Stability of Society

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The educational imagination and the sociology of education in Australia

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Teaching sociology within teacher education: Revisiting, realigning and re-embedding

Teaching sociology within teacher education: Revisiting, realigning and re-embedding

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