Education, professionalization, and social representations : on the transformation of social knowledge / / edited by Mohamed Chaib, Berth Danermark, and Staffan Selander ; with a foreword by Denise Jodelet

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910955277803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-86891-7; 1-136-86892-5; 1-283-04285-1; 9786613042859; 0-203-83720-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Collana: Routledge international studies in the philosophy of education ; ; 25
• Altri autori (Persone): ChaibMohamed <1943->; DanermarkBerth <1951->; SelanderStaffan
• Disciplina: 306.43
• Soggetti: Knowledge, Sociology of; Social representations; Educational sociology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Social Knowledge-Shared, Transmitted, Transformed; Part I: Theoretical Approaches; 1 Transformations and Changes in Social Knowledge: Towards the Dynamics of Meaning Making; 2 Social Representations and Power; 3 Of Contextualized Use of "Social" and "Professional"; 4 Understanding Professionalization as a Representational Process; 5 The Teacher's Work; 6 Education Processes of the Teacher as an Apprentice; 7 Social Representations and Cultures of Action; Part II: Education and Professional Formation8 The Theory of Social Representations as a Theoretical and Methodological Tool for Research on Teachers in Brazil: Analyses of Theses and Dissertations; 9 Teacher Students' Social Representations of How Adults Learn; 10 Being a School Teacher in Brazil; 11 Trainers of Adults: Professional ; Representations and Training Knowledge; 12 Training and Ruptures; Part III: Socio-Cultural Contexts; 13 Social Representations of Belonging in Pre-School Children's Peer-Cultures; 14 Transformations of Risk Knowledge: The Medical Encounter and Patients' Narrative Construction of Meaning15 The Role of the Media in the Transformation of Citizens' Social Representations of Suffering; 16 Religiosity as a Way of Appropriating Knowledge; 17 Appropriation of Knowledge and Social Psychology: Milgram's Experiment on Obedience to Authority; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book presents a broad range of research related to how social knowledge is shared, transmitted and transformed in the context of education and professional formation. The chapters of this edited collection reflect different theoretical and empirical approaches to that form of common-sense knowledge called social representations, the theory of which was developed almost a half-century ago by Serge Moscovici. Scholars from various research institutions in Brazil, France and Sweden, spanning a wide variety of disciplines within the social sciences, have contributed chapters that are group