ABSTRACT
The body figures in Pierre Bourdieu's depiction of "socially distinct and distinctive modes of acquisition" of social class-based patterns of language and literacy. This chapter discusses that the discourses of pedagogy are built around claims about 'truth' and the 'real' which in turn are transformed and rearticulated in the multiplicity of material practices deployed in the site of the classroom. It explores the disciplinary inscription of the subjectivity of the student occurs, contributing to the construction of a bodily habitus. The chapter describes the concurrently and subsequently undergoes multiple transformations at other sites of linguistic/literate practice through the texts of family and community, popular culture, further schooling. In educational discourse, dominance of a particular set of 'truths' seems to be contingent on a local political field of play which comprises a complex political economy of educational ideas, commodities and material practices.
