John Beck
Position/Status
Lecturer in Education
Director of Studies for Part II Education, Homerton College, Cambridge
Director of Studies in Education, Selwyn College, Cambridge
E-mail Address: jb267@cam.ac.uk
Phone: 01223 767551
Qualifications
MA, MA (Ed) D
Profile
John Beck teaches mainly in the areas of Sociology of Education and Professional Studies on undergraduate and Masters courses, as well as supervising and examining doctoral students. His main current research interests include: citizenship and citizenship education; social theory and social policy within the sociology of education - with particular reference to theorizations of late-postmodern society, professions and professionalization, and work on the continuing relevance of the work of Basil Bernstein.
Academic Area/Links
Sociology of Education
Citizenship
Research Topics
Citizenship and citizenship education; social theory and social policy issues within Sociology of Education; the work of Basil Bernstein; personal and social education.
Current Research Projects
Papers on class cultural analysis, citizenship education and constructions of 'active citizenship', the role of managerial elites and post-democracy
Course Involvement
Teaching Sociology of Education and Professional Studies in the BA Education Studies programme; contributing to the MPhil course in Politics, Democracy and Education; PGCE (Secondary) Core Studies.
Publications
Beck, J. (1998) Morality and Citizenship in Education', Cassell, 1998
Beck, J. (2002) The sacred and the profane in recent struggles to promote official pedagogic identities, British Journal of Sociology of Education: Special issues: Basil Bernstein's Theory of Social Class, Educational Codes and Social Control, 23, 4 pp617-626.
Ahier, J., Beck, J. and Moore, R.(2003) Graduate Citizens? issues of citizenship and higher education London, RoutledgeFalmer.
Beck, J. (2003) The School Curriculum, the National Curriculum and New Labour Reforms, in Beck, J. and Earl, M. (eds) Key Issues in Secondary Education - 2nd Edition, Continuum.
Beck, J. (2003) Citizenship and Citizenship Education in England, in Beck, J. and Earl, M (eds) ibid.
Beck, J. and Earl, M. (eds) (2003) Key Issues in Secondary Education - 2nd Edition, Continuum (editorial introduction and postscript).
Ahier, J. and Beck, J. (2003) Education and the Politics of Envy, British Journal of Educational Studies, 51, 4, pp 320-343.
Beck, J. and Young, M. (2005) The assault on the professions and the restructuring of academic and professional identities - a Bernsteinian perspective, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 26, 2, pp 183-197.
Beck, J. (2006) 'Directed Time' - Identity and time in New right and New Labour Policy Discourse in Moore, R. Arnot, M., Beck, J. and Daniels, H. (eds) Knowledge, power and Social Change: The contribution of Bernstein to educational policy research, RoutledgeFalmer.