Michael Grenfell
Biographic Data
| ID | 323298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Grenfell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Grenfell |
| SIGNATURE | GRENFELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2038-0317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Optical dating of Holocene extreme flood events in eastern South Africa and their connection to Enso variability
Existing research examining tributary blocked-valley lake and wetland development upon the Mfolozi River floodplain (South African east coast) has highlighted the potential for blocked-valley lakes to act as mainstem palaeoflood archives. Sand and silt units preserved within the organic deposits of these floodplain-impounded features represent relatively large flood events and provide an opportunity to establish the frequency of extreme flooding …
Controls on sediment transfer dynamics at a tributary–trunk transition in the Little Karoo, with implications for interpreting the landscape response to environmental change
Zones of alluviation at tributary – trunk confluences can act as sediment storage/transfer switches. Evaluating the temporal variation in tributary – trunk connectivity is key to understanding the origin, dynamics and residence time of tributary alluvial fill sequences, and determining relative and interacting effects of different drivers of landscape development. This paper evaluates processes and timescales of tributary (Prins River) – trunk (T…
Bourdieu's Metanoia: Seeing the Social World Anew
Bourdieu once commented that what was needed was a ‘new gaze’ on the social world – a metanoia. This book describes this view and how to do it. Based on biographical detail and the socio-political contexts which surrounded him, it sets out his vision of society and culture. Grounded on the distinction between traditional and modern worlds, it shows how ethnographic experience led Bourdieu to an intellectual epiphany. It demonstrates the growth of…
Bourdieus Metanoia: Seeing the Social World Anew
Strategy-Instruction and strategy clustering in the development of young learners’ reading skills
Reflecting in/on field theory in practice
The article discuses the dimension of reflexivity within the work of the social theorist Pierre Bourdieu. It alludes to the provenance of Bourdieu's theory of practice and the epistemology, which underpins it. Language is a key element in reflexivity, the article therefore outline's Bourdieu approach to language and the significance it holds in the development of his key concepts, as well as the relationship between subject and object. Reference …
B ourdieu, P ierre
Bourdieu's intellectual biography is tracked through his main research studies – Algeria, education, and culture – and his theory of practice is presented. Key concepts – habitus, field, capital – are explained. Stages in research from a Bourdieusian perspective are set out together with how to carry out field analysis. There is reference to Bourdieu's political stance and salient publications.
Pierre Bourdieu on Sport
This chapter suggests that a Bourdieusian approach to sport needed to be seen in terms of a ‘metanoia’, a new gaze, or way of seeing it. It sets out a framework for such a ‘gaze’ in terms of methodological issues of constructing sport as a research object and field analysis. The intellectual reputation of the French social theorist cum sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has gone from strength to strength since his death from cancer in 2002. For Bourdieu…
Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts
Bourdieu and Data Analysis: Methodological Principles and Practice
Intercultural Understanding and primary-level second language learning and teaching
This paper considers the case of Intercultural Understanding (IU) as a component part of foreign language learning and teaching in the upper stage of primary schools (roughly ages 7–11 years) in the UK. It is set within a specific context of curriculum innovation, namely recent policy changes which have introduced IU as a key part of primary modern foreign languages (PMFLs). The paper begins with setting out the background to this policy and the …
Being critical: The practical logic of Bourdieu's metanoia
This article addresses the notion of ‘being critical’ in the application of the theoretical approach of Pierre Bourdieu to educational policy research. It stems from a concern to avoid a kind of ‘critical ghetto’, where educational research is reinterpreted in Bourdieusian terms, or metaphorised in his conceptual language, without realising the practical implications and consequences of viewing educational phenomena from such a perspective. Issue…
Anglo-French Attitudes: Comparisons and Transfers between English and French Intellectuals since the Eighteenth Century
Anglo-French Attitudes: Comparisons and Transfers between English and French Intellectuals since the Eighteenth Century." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 17(1), pp. 118–119
Bourdieu, Language, and Literacy
This essay reviews two books on the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu with a special focus on issues of language, education and literacy. The essay sketches out Bourdieu's main theoretical ideas with respect to language, and raises a number of issues on classroom language and academic discourse. Bourdieu's approach is considered with respect to phenomenology, Vygotsky and cognitive theory, and areas of potential integration are e…
Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts
Bourdieu in the Field: From the Béarn and to Algeria – A Timely Response
This article considers the early work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu as an ‘intellectual response’ to two primary life experiences: one in the Béarn and the other in Algeria. It draws attention to the structural homologies between the two areas: in particular, the way that temporal features offered a basis to a theory of practice which was extended and applied subsequently throughout Bourdieu's career. It includes a discussion of ‘…
Pierre Bourdieu Agent Provocateur
The French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu is now recognized as leading intellectual of the late twentieth century. This comprehensive account of Bourdieu’s life and work traces the origins of his ideas and theories, explaining and exploring just what Bourdieu argued for and why. Illuminating the social, political, and philosophical strands that run through his work, Michael Grenfell’s broad study takes in Bourdieu’s response to The Algerian Cris…
Language-learning Strategies: A Case for Cross-curricular Collaboration
This paper addresses the case for collaboration between English and modern languages teachers and researchers in teaching and learning languages. The British context is set out against a background of government initiatives to raise secondary pupils' literacy skills. Salient trends in the teaching approach of English (L1) and modern language (ML) teachers are compared and contrasted in order to identify pedagogic concerns. To date, these concerns…
Change in the field—chang ing the field: Bourdieu and the methodological practice of educational research
Bourdieu's social theory offers a way of understanding some of the most important features of the field of educational research, while also providing educational researchers with a rich conceptual apparatus for their practice. This article addresses both of these methodological themes and the connections between them. We begin by outlining some key trends in educational research, mainly in Britain, over recent decades in terms of Bourdieu's Field…
Bourdieu and Education: Acts of Practical Theory
Field Manoeuvres: Bourdieu and the Young British Artists
This article offers an empirical study of the field of contemporary British art in the 1990s. It considers the nature of this field as an artistic avant-garde and discusses Bourdieu’s theory of art production. The Young British Artists are studied through three distinct levels of analyse derived from Bourdieu’s methodology and theory of practice. Issues of habitus and field structure are highlighted in order to examine the processes and operation…
Bourdieu and Initial Teacher Education‐a post‐structuralist approach
This paper details an application of the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu to research on initial teacher education. The extent to which Bourdieu's work is post‐structuralist is discussed; his major theoretical perspectives are outlined; and their relevancy outside of the purely sociological argued for. An example of research method derived from his approach is offered as a practical illustration: the training of modern language …
Change in the field—chang ing the field: Bourdieu and the methodological practice of educational research
Bourdieu's social theory offers a way of understanding some of the most important features of the field of educational research, while also providing educational researchers with a rich conceptual apparatus for their practice. This article addresses both of these methodological themes and the connections between them. We begin by outlining some key trends in educational research, mainly in Britain, over recent decades in terms of Bourdieu's Field…
Field Manoeuvres: Bourdieu and the Young British Artists
This article offers an empirical study of the field of contemporary British art in the 1990s. It considers the nature of this field as an artistic avant-garde and discusses Bourdieu’s theory of art production. The Young British Artists are studied through three distinct levels of analyse derived from Bourdieu’s methodology and theory of practice. Issues of habitus and field structure are highlighted in order to examine the processes and operation…
Bourdieu, Language, and Literacy
This essay reviews two books on the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu with a special focus on issues of language, education and literacy. The essay sketches out Bourdieu's main theoretical ideas with respect to language, and raises a number of issues on classroom language and academic discourse. Bourdieu's approach is considered with respect to phenomenology, Vygotsky and cognitive theory, and areas of potential integration are e…
Bourdieu and Initial Teacher Education‐a post‐structuralist approach
This paper details an application of the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu to research on initial teacher education. The extent to which Bourdieu's work is post‐structuralist is discussed; his major theoretical perspectives are outlined; and their relevancy outside of the purely sociological argued for. An example of research method derived from his approach is offered as a practical illustration: the training of modern language …
Being critical: The practical logic of Bourdieu's metanoia
This article addresses the notion of ‘being critical’ in the application of the theoretical approach of Pierre Bourdieu to educational policy research. It stems from a concern to avoid a kind of ‘critical ghetto’, where educational research is reinterpreted in Bourdieusian terms, or metaphorised in his conceptual language, without realising the practical implications and consequences of viewing educational phenomena from such a perspective. Issue…
Bourdieu in the Field: From the Béarn and to Algeria – A Timely Response
This article considers the early work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu as an ‘intellectual response’ to two primary life experiences: one in the Béarn and the other in Algeria. It draws attention to the structural homologies between the two areas: in particular, the way that temporal features offered a basis to a theory of practice which was extended and applied subsequently throughout Bourdieu's career. It includes a discussion of ‘…
Bourdieu and Initial Teacher Education‐a post‐structuralist approach
This paper details an application of the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu to research on initial teacher education. The extent to which Bourdieu's work is post‐structuralist is discussed; his major theoretical perspectives are outlined; and their relevancy outside of the purely sociological argued for. An example of research method derived from his approach is offered as a practical illustration: the training of modern language …
Bourdieu and Education: Acts of Practical Theory
Field Manoeuvres: Bourdieu and the Young British Artists
This article offers an empirical study of the field of contemporary British art in the 1990s. It considers the nature of this field as an artistic avant-garde and discusses Bourdieu’s theory of art production. The Young British Artists are studied through three distinct levels of analyse derived from Bourdieu’s methodology and theory of practice. Issues of habitus and field structure are highlighted in order to examine the processes and operation…
Pierre Bourdieu Agent Provocateur
The French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu is now recognized as leading intellectual of the late twentieth century. This comprehensive account of Bourdieu’s life and work traces the origins of his ideas and theories, explaining and exploring just what Bourdieu argued for and why. Illuminating the social, political, and philosophical strands that run through his work, Michael Grenfell’s broad study takes in Bourdieu’s response to The Algerian Cris…
Language-learning Strategies: A Case for Cross-curricular Collaboration
This paper addresses the case for collaboration between English and modern languages teachers and researchers in teaching and learning languages. The British context is set out against a background of government initiatives to raise secondary pupils' literacy skills. Salient trends in the teaching approach of English (L1) and modern language (ML) teachers are compared and contrasted in order to identify pedagogic concerns. To date, these concerns…
Change in the field—chang ing the field: Bourdieu and the methodological practice of educational research
Bourdieu's social theory offers a way of understanding some of the most important features of the field of educational research, while also providing educational researchers with a rich conceptual apparatus for their practice. This article addresses both of these methodological themes and the connections between them. We begin by outlining some key trends in educational research, mainly in Britain, over recent decades in terms of Bourdieu's Field…
Bourdieu in the Field: From the Béarn and to Algeria – A Timely Response
This article considers the early work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu as an ‘intellectual response’ to two primary life experiences: one in the Béarn and the other in Algeria. It draws attention to the structural homologies between the two areas: in particular, the way that temporal features offered a basis to a theory of practice which was extended and applied subsequently throughout Bourdieu's career. It includes a discussion of ‘…
Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts
Anglo-French Attitudes: Comparisons and Transfers between English and French Intellectuals since the Eighteenth Century
Anglo-French Attitudes: Comparisons and Transfers between English and French Intellectuals since the Eighteenth Century." Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 17(1), pp. 118–119
Bourdieu, Language, and Literacy
This essay reviews two books on the work of the French social theorist Pierre Bourdieu with a special focus on issues of language, education and literacy. The essay sketches out Bourdieu's main theoretical ideas with respect to language, and raises a number of issues on classroom language and academic discourse. Bourdieu's approach is considered with respect to phenomenology, Vygotsky and cognitive theory, and areas of potential integration are e…
Being critical: The practical logic of Bourdieu's metanoia
This article addresses the notion of ‘being critical’ in the application of the theoretical approach of Pierre Bourdieu to educational policy research. It stems from a concern to avoid a kind of ‘critical ghetto’, where educational research is reinterpreted in Bourdieusian terms, or metaphorised in his conceptual language, without realising the practical implications and consequences of viewing educational phenomena from such a perspective. Issue…
Intercultural Understanding and primary-level second language learning and teaching
This paper considers the case of Intercultural Understanding (IU) as a component part of foreign language learning and teaching in the upper stage of primary schools (roughly ages 7–11 years) in the UK. It is set within a specific context of curriculum innovation, namely recent policy changes which have introduced IU as a key part of primary modern foreign languages (PMFLs). The paper begins with setting out the background to this policy and the …
Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts
Bourdieu and Data Analysis: Methodological Principles and Practice
Pierre Bourdieu on Sport
This chapter suggests that a Bourdieusian approach to sport needed to be seen in terms of a ‘metanoia’, a new gaze, or way of seeing it. It sets out a framework for such a ‘gaze’ in terms of methodological issues of constructing sport as a research object and field analysis. The intellectual reputation of the French social theorist cum sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has gone from strength to strength since his death from cancer in 2002. For Bourdieu…
B ourdieu, P ierre
Bourdieu's intellectual biography is tracked through his main research studies – Algeria, education, and culture – and his theory of practice is presented. Key concepts – habitus, field, capital – are explained. Stages in research from a Bourdieusian perspective are set out together with how to carry out field analysis. There is reference to Bourdieu's political stance and salient publications.
Reflecting in/on field theory in practice
The article discuses the dimension of reflexivity within the work of the social theorist Pierre Bourdieu. It alludes to the provenance of Bourdieu's theory of practice and the epistemology, which underpins it. Language is a key element in reflexivity, the article therefore outline's Bourdieu approach to language and the significance it holds in the development of his key concepts, as well as the relationship between subject and object. Reference …
Strategy-Instruction and strategy clustering in the development of young learners’ reading skills
Bourdieu's Metanoia: Seeing the Social World Anew
Bourdieu once commented that what was needed was a ‘new gaze’ on the social world – a metanoia. This book describes this view and how to do it. Based on biographical detail and the socio-political contexts which surrounded him, it sets out his vision of society and culture. Grounded on the distinction between traditional and modern worlds, it shows how ethnographic experience led Bourdieu to an intellectual epiphany. It demonstrates the growth of…
Bourdieus Metanoia: Seeing the Social World Anew
Controls on sediment transfer dynamics at a tributary–trunk transition in the Little Karoo, with implications for interpreting the landscape response to environmental change
Zones of alluviation at tributary – trunk confluences can act as sediment storage/transfer switches. Evaluating the temporal variation in tributary – trunk connectivity is key to understanding the origin, dynamics and residence time of tributary alluvial fill sequences, and determining relative and interacting effects of different drivers of landscape development. This paper evaluates processes and timescales of tributary (Prins River) – trunk (T…
Optical dating of Holocene extreme flood events in eastern South Africa and their connection to Enso variability
Existing research examining tributary blocked-valley lake and wetland development upon the Mfolozi River floodplain (South African east coast) has highlighted the potential for blocked-valley lakes to act as mainstem palaeoflood archives. Sand and silt units preserved within the organic deposits of these floodplain-impounded features represent relatively large flood events and provide an opportunity to establish the frequency of extreme flooding …
Sociology (18 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (15 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Social science (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)