Brian Barrett
Biographic Data
| ID | 5429407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Barrett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Barrett |
| SIGNATURE | BARRETT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5604-9159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Working with “Safety”: Researching Oil-Spill-Impacted Communities in the Niger Delta
Through the example of research on the impact of oil spills on Niger Delta communities and landscapes, this study addresses the complexities of doing research in places that have been framed as problematic, and how concerns around the diverse risks posed to the safety of researcher and research participants might be negotiated. For an academic born and raised in Nigeria, the initial intent was to research “in the field” in person, using focus gro…
Deforestation in conflict-affected areas: A quantitative approach for integrating local perspectives during peacebuilding
This paper examines deforestation-related factors in Colombia’s peacebuilding context. The study aims to understand local land use change by incorporating human perceptions as proxies for factors associated with underlying socioeconomic drivers of deforestation in post-conflict priority areas. Community perceptions of socioeconomic dimensions such as education, health, infrastructure, and peacebuilding, among others, were gathered from 98 groups …
Basil Bernstein: Code Theory and Beyond
Who does technology serve? A critical analysis of sociocultural factors shaping opportunities, practices and barriers faced by a smallholders in south-western Colombia
This article offers a critical approach towards adopting new technologies as a mitigation strategy. It provides a comprehensive analysis that helps illuminate the adoption process and the sociocultural factors intersecting and informing it. Using a capability approach lens and qualitative and participatory data collection methods, this study presents and analyses the testimonies of smallholders living on Colombia’s Pacific coast, currently expose…
Rob Moore, social realism, and the sociology of education and knowledge
This chapter details the emergence of social realism as an effort to address ‘the problem of the problem of knowledge’ (Moore, 2013b) in the sociology of education. As a backdrop to the discussion, it will briefly outline the manner in which the work of Basil Bernstein - ‘a realist, but without a theory of realism’ (Moore, 2013a, p. 190) - has served as a central intellectual inspiration behind the development of social realism. It will contrast …
Conceptualizing a Radical Visible Pedagogy
This paper contributes to the theorization of radical visible pedagogy by building upon Basil Bernstein’s initial conceptualization and previous efforts to develop it. Alongside Bernstein’s “classification” and “framing” we suggest that incorporating the concepts of “semantic gravity” and “semantic density” from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT)—concepts that were not available to those engaged in earlier efforts to theorize radical visible pedagogy…
Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals and targets: Innovative approaches and new perspectives
Development of an SDG interlinkages analysis model at the river basin scale: A case study in the Luanhe River Basin, China
While the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are broadly framed with 17 goals, the goals and their targets inherently connect with each other forming a complex system. Actions supporting one goal may influence progress in other goals, either positively (synergies) or negatively (trade-offs). Effective managing the synergies and trade-offs is a prerequisite for ensuring policy coherence. This is particular relevant at the river basin scale where …
Ecosystem services and disservices in the Luanhe River Basin in China under past, current and future land uses: Implications for the sustainable development goals
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-01078-8
Rethinking the foundations: Towards powerful professional knowledge in teacher education in the USA and England
In this paper, we aim to outline what foundations can offer in terms of understanding education and educational practice, and thus for providing a basis for teachers’ professional knowledge. We look critically at the struggle foundation disciplines often experience with coherence and integration in terms of both their relation to each other and to broader (e.g. philosophical or sociological) thought. We begin to rethink foundations more as a (str…
Modelling land system evolution and dynamics of terrestrial carbon stocks in the Luanhe River Basin, China: A scenario analysis of trade-offs and synergies between sustainable development goals
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-01004-y
Large-scale flood risk assessment under different development strategies: The Luanhe River Basin in China
Increasing resilience to natural hazards and climate change is critical for achieving many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In recent decades, China has experienced rapid economic development and became the second-largest economy in the world. This rapid economic expansion has led to large-scale changes in terrestrial (e.g., land use and land cover changes), aquatic (e.g., construction of reservoirs and artificial wetlands) and marine (e.g.,…
Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals and targets: Innovative approaches and new perspectives
Malawi Stories: Mapping an art-science collaborative process
This paper outlines a project drawing together an artist working on creative GIS, a geomatics scholar, an NGO leader, a rural geographer and soil scientist, an environmental geochemist, and a political geographer. With a shared interest in the social and physical processes affecting people’s lives in Malawi, and the possibilities for interdisciplinary collaboration, the team engaged in practice-based mapping of our data sources and respective met…
Knowledge, Curriculum and Equity: Social Realist Perspectives
http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/UOA2_A:Combined_Local:uoa_alma51273444680002091
The allure of simplicity: Scripted curricula and equity
Bernstein in the urban classroom: A case study
Despite a long-standing concern within the sociology of education for ameliorating educational inequality, the challenge of improving educational opportunities for disadvantaged students remains deeply entrenched. While ‘macro’ issues such as segregation and systemic inequalities in school funding and access to qualified teachers must be addressed as matters of social and educational justice, Basil Bernstein's novel focus on ‘relations within’ ed…
A Critical Discourse Analysis of No Promo Homo Policies in US Schools
This article presents a critical discourse analysis of no promo homo policies and their effects in US schools. No promo homo—short for “no promotion of homosexuality” (Eskridge, 2000 Eskridge, W.N. (2000). No promo homo: The sedimentation of antigay discourse and the channeling effect of judicial review. New York Law Review, 75, 1327–1411.[Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], p. 1329)—polices have been adopted across nine states and several loca…
Knowledge and the Future of the Curriculum: International Studies in Social Realism
This collection explores why powerful knowledge matters for social justice and discusses its implications for curriculum and pedagogy. The contributors argue that the purpose of education is to provid
Knowledge, pedagogy and society: International perspectives on Basil Bernstein’s sociology of education
edited by Daniel Frandji and Phillipe Vitale, New York, Routledge, 2012, 272 pp., $44.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-50057-9, 2011, 272 pp., $135 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-56536-3 The enduring sig
Is interdisciplinarity old news? A disciplined consideration of interdisciplinarity
This paper draws on the theory of Basil Bernstein and on more recent applications of it by Rob Moore, John Beck and Michael Young to respond to recent calls for the replacement of discipline-based university faculties and departments with ‘problem-based’ curricula and programmes of study. It considers, particularly, the potential consequences of such a shift in higher education policy for the identities of university teachers, researchers and stu…
Religion and Habitus: Exploring the Relationship Between Religious Involvement and Educational Outcomes and Orientations Among Urban African American Students
Large, lingering, and recently widening gaps in educational achievement exist amid growing differences in access to educational opportunity along lines of race and socioeconomic status among American students. Recognizing these gaps and developing strategies for eliminating them is essential. Previous research has documented a positive relationship between religious involvement and a wide range of adolescent outcomes. Most importantly, for the pu…
A Review of “High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education”
No Child Left Behind and the assault on teachers' professional practices and identities
Religion and Habitus: Exploring the Relationship Between Religious Involvement and Educational Outcomes and Orientations Among Urban African American Students
Large, lingering, and recently widening gaps in educational achievement exist amid growing differences in access to educational opportunity along lines of race and socioeconomic status among American students. Recognizing these gaps and developing strategies for eliminating them is essential. Previous research has documented a positive relationship between religious involvement and a wide range of adolescent outcomes. Most importantly, for the pu…
No Child Left Behind and the assault on teachers' professional practices and identities
The allure of simplicity: Scripted curricula and equity
Knowledge, pedagogy and society: International perspectives on Basil Bernstein’s sociology of education
edited by Daniel Frandji and Phillipe Vitale, New York, Routledge, 2012, 272 pp., $44.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-50057-9, 2011, 272 pp., $135 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-56536-3 The enduring sig
A Critical Discourse Analysis of No Promo Homo Policies in US Schools
This article presents a critical discourse analysis of no promo homo policies and their effects in US schools. No promo homo—short for “no promotion of homosexuality” (Eskridge, 2000 Eskridge, W.N. (2000). No promo homo: The sedimentation of antigay discourse and the channeling effect of judicial review. New York Law Review, 75, 1327–1411.[Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], p. 1329)—polices have been adopted across nine states and several loca…
Is interdisciplinarity old news? A disciplined consideration of interdisciplinarity
This paper draws on the theory of Basil Bernstein and on more recent applications of it by Rob Moore, John Beck and Michael Young to respond to recent calls for the replacement of discipline-based university faculties and departments with ‘problem-based’ curricula and programmes of study. It considers, particularly, the potential consequences of such a shift in higher education policy for the identities of university teachers, researchers and stu…
Development of an SDG interlinkages analysis model at the river basin scale: A case study in the Luanhe River Basin, China
While the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are broadly framed with 17 goals, the goals and their targets inherently connect with each other forming a complex system. Actions supporting one goal may influence progress in other goals, either positively (synergies) or negatively (trade-offs). Effective managing the synergies and trade-offs is a prerequisite for ensuring policy coherence. This is particular relevant at the river basin scale where …
Ecosystem services and disservices in the Luanhe River Basin in China under past, current and future land uses: Implications for the sustainable development goals
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-01078-8
Large-scale flood risk assessment under different development strategies: The Luanhe River Basin in China
Increasing resilience to natural hazards and climate change is critical for achieving many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In recent decades, China has experienced rapid economic development and became the second-largest economy in the world. This rapid economic expansion has led to large-scale changes in terrestrial (e.g., land use and land cover changes), aquatic (e.g., construction of reservoirs and artificial wetlands) and marine (e.g.,…
Bernstein in the urban classroom: A case study
Despite a long-standing concern within the sociology of education for ameliorating educational inequality, the challenge of improving educational opportunities for disadvantaged students remains deeply entrenched. While ‘macro’ issues such as segregation and systemic inequalities in school funding and access to qualified teachers must be addressed as matters of social and educational justice, Basil Bernstein's novel focus on ‘relations within’ ed…
Modelling land system evolution and dynamics of terrestrial carbon stocks in the Luanhe River Basin, China: A scenario analysis of trade-offs and synergies between sustainable development goals
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-01004-y
A Review of “High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning: The Real Crisis in Education”
No Child Left Behind and the assault on teachers' professional practices and identities
Religion and Habitus: Exploring the Relationship Between Religious Involvement and Educational Outcomes and Orientations Among Urban African American Students
Large, lingering, and recently widening gaps in educational achievement exist amid growing differences in access to educational opportunity along lines of race and socioeconomic status among American students. Recognizing these gaps and developing strategies for eliminating them is essential. Previous research has documented a positive relationship between religious involvement and a wide range of adolescent outcomes. Most importantly, for the pu…
Knowledge, pedagogy and society: International perspectives on Basil Bernstein’s sociology of education
edited by Daniel Frandji and Phillipe Vitale, New York, Routledge, 2012, 272 pp., $44.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-415-50057-9, 2011, 272 pp., $135 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-415-56536-3 The enduring sig
Is interdisciplinarity old news? A disciplined consideration of interdisciplinarity
This paper draws on the theory of Basil Bernstein and on more recent applications of it by Rob Moore, John Beck and Michael Young to respond to recent calls for the replacement of discipline-based university faculties and departments with ‘problem-based’ curricula and programmes of study. It considers, particularly, the potential consequences of such a shift in higher education policy for the identities of university teachers, researchers and stu…
Knowledge and the Future of the Curriculum: International Studies in Social Realism
This collection explores why powerful knowledge matters for social justice and discusses its implications for curriculum and pedagogy. The contributors argue that the purpose of education is to provid
A Critical Discourse Analysis of No Promo Homo Policies in US Schools
This article presents a critical discourse analysis of no promo homo policies and their effects in US schools. No promo homo—short for “no promotion of homosexuality” (Eskridge, 2000 Eskridge, W.N. (2000). No promo homo: The sedimentation of antigay discourse and the channeling effect of judicial review. New York Law Review, 75, 1327–1411.[Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], p. 1329)—polices have been adopted across nine states and several loca…
Knowledge, Curriculum and Equity: Social Realist Perspectives
http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/UOA2_A:Combined_Local:uoa_alma51273444680002091
The allure of simplicity: Scripted curricula and equity
Bernstein in the urban classroom: A case study
Despite a long-standing concern within the sociology of education for ameliorating educational inequality, the challenge of improving educational opportunities for disadvantaged students remains deeply entrenched. While ‘macro’ issues such as segregation and systemic inequalities in school funding and access to qualified teachers must be addressed as matters of social and educational justice, Basil Bernstein's novel focus on ‘relations within’ ed…
Malawi Stories: Mapping an art-science collaborative process
This paper outlines a project drawing together an artist working on creative GIS, a geomatics scholar, an NGO leader, a rural geographer and soil scientist, an environmental geochemist, and a political geographer. With a shared interest in the social and physical processes affecting people’s lives in Malawi, and the possibilities for interdisciplinary collaboration, the team engaged in practice-based mapping of our data sources and respective met…
Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals and targets: Innovative approaches and new perspectives
Rethinking the foundations: Towards powerful professional knowledge in teacher education in the USA and England
In this paper, we aim to outline what foundations can offer in terms of understanding education and educational practice, and thus for providing a basis for teachers’ professional knowledge. We look critically at the struggle foundation disciplines often experience with coherence and integration in terms of both their relation to each other and to broader (e.g. philosophical or sociological) thought. We begin to rethink foundations more as a (str…
Modelling land system evolution and dynamics of terrestrial carbon stocks in the Luanhe River Basin, China: A scenario analysis of trade-offs and synergies between sustainable development goals
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-01004-y
Large-scale flood risk assessment under different development strategies: The Luanhe River Basin in China
Increasing resilience to natural hazards and climate change is critical for achieving many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In recent decades, China has experienced rapid economic development and became the second-largest economy in the world. This rapid economic expansion has led to large-scale changes in terrestrial (e.g., land use and land cover changes), aquatic (e.g., construction of reservoirs and artificial wetlands) and marine (e.g.,…
Synergies and trade-offs between sustainable development goals and targets: Innovative approaches and new perspectives
Development of an SDG interlinkages analysis model at the river basin scale: A case study in the Luanhe River Basin, China
While the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are broadly framed with 17 goals, the goals and their targets inherently connect with each other forming a complex system. Actions supporting one goal may influence progress in other goals, either positively (synergies) or negatively (trade-offs). Effective managing the synergies and trade-offs is a prerequisite for ensuring policy coherence. This is particular relevant at the river basin scale where …
Ecosystem services and disservices in the Luanhe River Basin in China under past, current and future land uses: Implications for the sustainable development goals
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-01078-8
Conceptualizing a Radical Visible Pedagogy
This paper contributes to the theorization of radical visible pedagogy by building upon Basil Bernstein’s initial conceptualization and previous efforts to develop it. Alongside Bernstein’s “classification” and “framing” we suggest that incorporating the concepts of “semantic gravity” and “semantic density” from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT)—concepts that were not available to those engaged in earlier efforts to theorize radical visible pedagogy…
Basil Bernstein: Code Theory and Beyond
Who does technology serve? A critical analysis of sociocultural factors shaping opportunities, practices and barriers faced by a smallholders in south-western Colombia
This article offers a critical approach towards adopting new technologies as a mitigation strategy. It provides a comprehensive analysis that helps illuminate the adoption process and the sociocultural factors intersecting and informing it. Using a capability approach lens and qualitative and participatory data collection methods, this study presents and analyses the testimonies of smallholders living on Colombia’s Pacific coast, currently expose…
Rob Moore, social realism, and the sociology of education and knowledge
This chapter details the emergence of social realism as an effort to address ‘the problem of the problem of knowledge’ (Moore, 2013b) in the sociology of education. As a backdrop to the discussion, it will briefly outline the manner in which the work of Basil Bernstein - ‘a realist, but without a theory of realism’ (Moore, 2013a, p. 190) - has served as a central intellectual inspiration behind the development of social realism. It will contrast …
Working with “Safety”: Researching Oil-Spill-Impacted Communities in the Niger Delta
Through the example of research on the impact of oil spills on Niger Delta communities and landscapes, this study addresses the complexities of doing research in places that have been framed as problematic, and how concerns around the diverse risks posed to the safety of researcher and research participants might be negotiated. For an academic born and raised in Nigeria, the initial intent was to research “in the field” in person, using focus gro…
Deforestation in conflict-affected areas: A quantitative approach for integrating local perspectives during peacebuilding
This paper examines deforestation-related factors in Colombia’s peacebuilding context. The study aims to understand local land use change by incorporating human perceptions as proxies for factors associated with underlying socioeconomic drivers of deforestation in post-conflict priority areas. Community perceptions of socioeconomic dimensions such as education, health, infrastructure, and peacebuilding, among others, were gathered from 98 groups …
Political science (16 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (7 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Environmental Science (6 works)