Robert Funnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 104983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Funnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Funnell |
| SIGNATURE | FUNNELL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Seeing like a sociologist
Whereas teaching of sociology is discussed in terms of innovations to make theory more attractive and accessible, teaching applied sociology remains an unfashionable topic for intellectual discussion and analysis. It is described as a service area taught by ‘invisible sociologists’, removed from the pursuit of explicit theory. Taking the case of an education degree, it is argued that teaching in applied courses can produce a kind of sociologist a…
Journeys to the top
Purpose This paper aims to outline some of the social, cultural, political and economic conditions in which four of only seven women who have become rectors of public universities in Vietnam. Their experiences are described with a focus on the context of Vietnam in order to focus more clearly on non‐western starting points for theory about career development in higher education in Vietnam and other non‐western settings. Design/methodology/approac…
Struggles for order and control of school behaviour
Tracing variations within ‘rural habitus’
An explanation is presented about what keeps young men in isolated rural areas. The purpose is to contribute a concrete analysis of habitus as used in educational research. Inadequacies in application of the term are demonstrated in research conducted on school and work by the author in a rural town. An analysis of changes from labour‐intensive work on grazing properties and practices of kangaroo and pig hunting are linked to a form of capital to…
Search for a Theory of Cultural Transmission in an Anthropology of Education
Since its inception as a subdiscipline, the anthropology of education literature has been characterized by the volume and richness of descriptive ethnographies. Periodic review papers have commented on the lack of conceptual clarity in the key areas of cultural transmission and acquisition, but the theoretical challenges of such papers have been addressed infrequently. This paper attempts to clearly focus on the conceptual dilemmas that are inher…
Tracing variations within ‘rural habitus’
An explanation is presented about what keeps young men in isolated rural areas. The purpose is to contribute a concrete analysis of habitus as used in educational research. Inadequacies in application of the term are demonstrated in research conducted on school and work by the author in a rural town. An analysis of changes from labour‐intensive work on grazing properties and practices of kangaroo and pig hunting are linked to a form of capital to…
Search for a Theory of Cultural Transmission in an Anthropology of Education
Since its inception as a subdiscipline, the anthropology of education literature has been characterized by the volume and richness of descriptive ethnographies. Periodic review papers have commented on the lack of conceptual clarity in the key areas of cultural transmission and acquisition, but the theoretical challenges of such papers have been addressed infrequently. This paper attempts to clearly focus on the conceptual dilemmas that are inher…
Search for a Theory of Cultural Transmission in an Anthropology of Education
Since its inception as a subdiscipline, the anthropology of education literature has been characterized by the volume and richness of descriptive ethnographies. Periodic review papers have commented on the lack of conceptual clarity in the key areas of cultural transmission and acquisition, but the theoretical challenges of such papers have been addressed infrequently. This paper attempts to clearly focus on the conceptual dilemmas that are inher…
Tracing variations within ‘rural habitus’
An explanation is presented about what keeps young men in isolated rural areas. The purpose is to contribute a concrete analysis of habitus as used in educational research. Inadequacies in application of the term are demonstrated in research conducted on school and work by the author in a rural town. An analysis of changes from labour‐intensive work on grazing properties and practices of kangaroo and pig hunting are linked to a form of capital to…
Struggles for order and control of school behaviour
Journeys to the top
Purpose This paper aims to outline some of the social, cultural, political and economic conditions in which four of only seven women who have become rectors of public universities in Vietnam. Their experiences are described with a focus on the context of Vietnam in order to focus more clearly on non‐western starting points for theory about career development in higher education in Vietnam and other non‐western settings. Design/methodology/approac…
Seeing like a sociologist
Whereas teaching of sociology is discussed in terms of innovations to make theory more attractive and accessible, teaching applied sociology remains an unfashionable topic for intellectual discussion and analysis. It is described as a service area taught by ‘invisible sociologists’, removed from the pursuit of explicit theory. Taking the case of an education degree, it is argued that teaching in applied courses can produce a kind of sociologist a…
Sociology (5 works) · Economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works)