Harry Daniels is Professor of Education: Culture and Pedagogy at the University of Bath, where he is the Convenor in Head of the ‘Learning as Culture and Social Practice’ Research Programme and also the Director of the Centre for Socio-cultural and Activity Theory Research (CSAT), dedicated to the development and application of socio-cultural and activity theory. He is Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Learning Research at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia and is also Research Professor at the Centre for Human Activity Theory at Kansai University, Osaka in Japan.
Harry’s research interests are wide ranging including Socio-cultural and activity theory, innovatory learning in the work place, special needs and social exclusion, social, emotional and behavioral difficulty and patient and carer information seeking. These interests have seen him undertake various research projects, his current project is entitled ‘Learning across Boundaries: Levering out the Findings of Research’. Other recent projects include work for Children’s Services at the Department for Education and Skill and time as Research Director and Principal Investigator on a team looking into Learning in and for Interagency Working. Harry has also worked on a similar project in Northern Ireland.
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Edited by Ted Cole, Harry Daniels, John Visser
Responding to disruptive or troubled pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD) remains a highly topical issue. The challenges these children present relate to wider issues of continuing political concern: the perceived declining discipline in schools; school and social exclusion; the...
To Be Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge
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Edited by Harry Daniels
Building on earlier publications by Harry Daniels, Vygotsky and Sociology provides readers with an overview of the implications for research of the theoretical work which acknowledges a debt to the writings of L. S. Vygotsky and sociologists whose work echoes his sociogenetic commitments,...
To Be Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Critical perspectives
Edited by Hugh Lauder, Michael Young, Harry Daniels, Maria Balarin, John Lowe
The promise, embraced by governments around the world, is that the knowledge economy will provide knowledge workers with a degree of autonomy and permission to think which enables them to be creative and to attract high incomes. What credence should we give to this promise?
The current economic...
Published January 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Inclusive Education
Edited by Harry Daniels, Philip Garner
Series: World Yearbook of Education
Inclusive education" is the term now used to describe the incorporation of special needs into mainstream education. This selection of papers provides perspectives and dialogue on inclusive education from around the world, defining the philosophical, political and educational implications....
Published March 24th 2012 by Routledge
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A Critical Perspective
Edited by Harry Daniels, Hugh Lauder, Jill Porter
Series: Critical Perspectives on Education
Knowledge, Values and Educational Policy focuses on what schools are for and what should be taught in them, how learning is possible across boundaries, and issues of diversity and equity. Policies and practices relating to schools are also considered.
Within this volume, internationally...
Published August 4th 2011 by Routledge
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A Critical Perspective
Edited by Harry Daniels, Hugh Lauder, Jill Porter
Series: Critical Perspectives on Education
Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning focuses on how education is understood in different cultures, the theories and related assumptions we make about learners and students and how we think about them, and how we can understand the principle actors in education - learners and teachers....
Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
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Promoting Learning Across Boundaries and Agencies
Edited by Harry Daniels, Anne Edwards, Yrjo Engeström, Tony Gallagher, Sten R. Ludvigsen
This ground-breaking book brings together cutting-edge researchers who study the transformation of practice through the enhancement and transformation of expertise. This is an important moment for such a contribution because expertise is in transition - moving toward collaboration in...
Published August 19th 2009 by Routledge
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A Critical Perspective
Edited by Harry Daniels, Hugh Lauder, Jill Porter
Series: Critical Perspectives on Education
Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning focuses on how education is understood in different cultures, the theories and related assumptions we make about learners and students and how we think about them, and how we can understand the principle actors in education - learners and teachers....
Published March 16th 2009 by Routledge
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A Critical Perspective
Edited by Harry Daniels, Hugh Lauder, Jill Porter
Series: Critical Perspectives on Education
Knowledge, Values and Educational Policy focuses on what schools are for and what should be taught in them, how learning is possible across boundaries, and issues of diversity and equity. Policies and practices relating to schools are also considered.
Within this volume, internationally...
Published March 16th 2009 by Routledge
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Multi-Agency Working for Children's Wellbeing
By Anne Edwards, Harry Daniels, Tony Gallagher, Jane Leadbetter, Paul Warmington
Series: Improving Learning
** Shortlisted for the NASEN Special Educational Needs Academic Book Award 2009 **
Inter-professional collaborations are invaluable relationships which can prevent the social exclusion of children and young people and are now a common feature of welfare policies worldwide.
Drawing on a four year...
Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
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By Harry Daniels
This book provides readers with an overview of the implications for research of the theoretical work which acknowledges a debt to the writings of L.S. Vygotsky. A concise introduction to Vygotsky’s original thesis and discussions on his approach to research methods is given; this is followed by an...
Published July 31st 2008 by Routledge
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Applying the Sociology of Basil Bernstein
Edited by Rob Moore, Madeleine Arnot, John Beck, Harry Daniels
This book is made up of a selection of writings from an international team of scholars, highlighting the contribution made to the field of educational policy and educational policy research by Basil Bernstein's work on the sociology of pedagogy. These contributors explore, analyse and engage with...
Published May 24th 2006 by Routledge
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Edited by Harry Daniels
Lev Vygotsky provided the twentieth century with an enticing mix of intellectual traditions within an attempt to provide an account of the social formation of the mind. His legacy is an exciting, but at times chaotic fusion of ideas. An Introduction to Vygotsky, Second Edition provides students...
Published April 13th 2005 by Routledge
Harry’s latest book for Routledge - ‘Vygotsky and Research’ (2008) provides readers with an overview of the implications for research of the theoretical work which acknowledges a debt to the writings of L.S. Vygotsky. It introduces Vygotsky’s original thesis and discussions on his approach to research methods and this is followed by an exploration of the research practices which have arisen in fields developed on the basis of his original thesis. This includes: Socio-cultural studies with a focus on mediated action; Distributed Cognition, Situated Cognition and Activity Theory. His other work on Vygotsky includes ‘An Introduction to Vygotsky’ (2005), ‘Vygotsky and Pedagogy’ (2001) and ‘Charting the Agenda: Educational Activity after Vygotsky’ (1993).
Available this year, as part of the ‘Critical Perspective on Education’ series, Harry is editing two hardbacks ‘Knowledge, Values and Educational Policy’ and ‘Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning’. Knowledge, Values and Educational Policy focuses on what schools are for and what should be taught in them, how learning is possible across boundaries, and issues of diversity and equity. Within the volume, internationally renowned contributors address a number of fundamental questions designed to take the reader to the heart of current debates around curriculum, knowledge transfer, equity and social justice, and system reform. Educational Theories, Cultures and Learning focuses on how education is understood in different cultures, the theories and related assumptions we make about learners and students and how we think about them, and how we can understand the principle actors in education - learners and teachers. Read alongside its companion volume, readers will be encouraged to reflect on some of the key issues facing education and educationists today.
Also set to publish in 2009 is ‘Activity Theory in Practice’. This ground-breaking book aims to bring together cutting-edge researchers who study the transformation of practice through the enhancement and transformation of expertise. While essential reading for the growing international CHAT (Cultural Historical Activity Theory) research community, the book will also prove highly useful to all researchers and research students who are interested in conceptual and empirical issues in all aspects of ‘activity-based’ research.
Harry has also served on a number of editorial boards for various journals across the world. Professor Daniels is co-Editor of Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties - the official Journal of the Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties Association (SEBDA). He is also on the board for ACTIO - An International Journal of Human Activity Theory
