Steven Newton

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Are the terms 'educationally resistant' and 'school resistant' interchangable?

I believe the answer is no but would love to be challenged in my thinking. My thinking is - drawing on Resistance Theory (think Paul Willis, Henri Giroux and the like) students can be described...

06 June 2018 7,076 3 View

Is anyone able to offer clarity or an extension to my thinking regarding the institutional habitus within alternative educational fields?

Cultural capital in its institutionalized form is competency in culturally valued practices, and therefore in terms of the educational field, institutionalized cultural capital can be seen as...

10 October 2017 2,134 1 View

Can the sub fields within a field ever be truly autonomous?

If we take the field of formal education and drill down to the sub fields of mainstream and alternative education and we move a student from mainstream into alternative education, homology of...

03 March 2016 4,331 4 View

Can a struggle exist between homology of field and homology of position leading to the division between legitmate and illegitmate field capital/s?

I have conceptualised an alternative educational pathway as a subfield of formal education (a structured space for students to interrelate) and as such the homology of field theoretically affords...

03 March 2016 2,689 2 View

Can you extrapolate effect size?

How does time impact on effect size? 2 sceanrios - 1. If a 6 month intervention program catering for 30 students has an effect size of 0.4, and a seperate 12 month intervention program catering...

12 December 2015 1,381 16 View

Can anyone help with my understanding/definition of class?

Specifically I am concerned that behaviors I am seeing in my students can not be explained using definitions of class, and yet a significant amount of literature suggests otherwise. Therefore I...

10 October 2013 6,071 64 View

When is a field not a field, or alternatively, when is a field a field?

This may sound an odd question and I'm hoping it is and I have just twisted myself into knots over semantics rather than just being plain wrong about concepts. But nevertheless twisted I have...

07 July 2013 9,046 4 View

Can I define my ontological position or must I subscribe to an ontological position?

Unsure if I'm asking in right place but I need help with the topic. I have spent 12 months attempting to understand my ontological position and I am beginning to articulate it but can't align it...

01 January 2013 4,676 6 View