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 grouped into three main categories related to education, professionalization and transformation of knowledge. Part I covers theoretical approaches to understanding the transformation of social knowledge from the perspective of social representations. Part II analyzes the impact of the theory of social representations on the transformation of knowledge in the field of education and professional formation. Finally, Part III presents several empirical studies focused on the social and cultural frames that condition the transformation of knowledge. While the book is devoted to education and the emerging field of research on professionalization, it will also appeal to anyone with a general interest in how people acquire their worldviews and how these views influence their actions.
List of Figures. List of Tables. Foreword Denise Jodelet
Acknowledgments. Introduction: Social Knowledge Shared, Transmitted,
Transformed Mohamed Chaib, Berth Danermark, and Staffan Selander Part I:
Theoretical Approaches
1. Transformations and Changes in Social Knowledge
Towards the Dynamics of Meaning Making Anders Gustavsson and Staffan Selander
2. Social Representations and Power Berth Danermark and Per Germundsson
3. Of
Contextualized Use of "Social" and "Professional" Alain Piaser and Michel
Bataille
4. Understanding Professionalization as a Representational Process
Pierre Ratinaud and Michel Lac
5. The Teachers Work Clarilza Prado de Sousa
6. Education Processes of the Teacher as an Apprentice Vera Maria Nigro de
Souza Placco and Vera Lucia Trevisan de Souza
7. Social Representations and
Cultures of Action Jean-Marie Barbier Part II: Education and Professional
Formation
8. The Theory of Social Representations as a Theoretical and
Methodological Tool for Research on Teachers in Brazil: Analyses of Theses
and Dissertations Maria Suzana De Stefano Menin, Allesandra de Morais
Shimizu, and Claudia Maria de Lima
9. Teacher Students Social
Representations of How Adults Learn Mohamed Chaib and Josef Chaib
10. Being a
School Teacher in Brazil Alda Judith Alves-Mazzotti
11. Trainers of Adults:
Professional Representations and Training Knowledge Patrice Bouyssičres and
Marie-Pierre Trinquier
12. Training and Ruptures Christine Mias Part III:
Socio-Cultural Contexts
13. Social Representations of Belonging in Pre-School
Childrens Peer-Cultures Solveig Hägglund and Annica Löfdahl
14.
Transformations of Risk Knowledge The Medical Encounter and Patients
Narrative Construction of Meaning Sonja Olin Lauritzen and Robert Ohlsson
15.
The Role of the Media in the Transformation of Citizens Social
Representations of Suffering Birgitta Höijer and Ulrika Olausson
16.
Religiosity as a Way of Appropriating Knowledge Margot Campos Madeira, Luiz
Fernando Rangel Tura, Maria Rosilene Barbosa Alvim, and Vincent de Paulo
Carvalho Madeira
17. Appropriation of Knowledge and Social Psychology:
Milgrams Experiment on Obedience to Authority Sophie Richardot.
Contributors. Index.
Mohamed Chaib is Professor of Education and Director of the National Centre for Lifelong Learning (Encell) at the School of Education and Communication at Jönköping University, Sweden.
Berth Danermark is Professor of Sociology at the The Swedish Institute for Disability Research, School of Health and Medical Sciences at Örebro University, Sweden.
Staffan Selander is Professor of Didactics in the Department of Didactic Science and Early Childhood Education at the Stockholm Institute of Education, Sweden.
