Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L)

by Ann Berlak

Author	: Ann Berlak
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages	: 306
Release	: 2012-04-27
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1136471049

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This study illuminates how the everyday activity of teachers raises profound economic, cultural, ethical, political and research issues, and provides a new and fruitful way of examining the practice of teaching. The first part of the book offers a detailed description of sensitively recorded school situations, arising from work carried out in a number of British primary schools. From the analysis of their research the authors constructed a theoretical perspective for looking at schooling in the form of sixteen ‘dilemmas’; the second half of the book is concerned with this perspective, and shows how the dilemmas constitute a language for looking at everyday schooling and relating it to more general political, social and cultural issues. The book thus spans the gap in educational thinking between work with a firm empirical base and specifically theoretical studies.

Contemporary Research in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)

by John Eggleston

Author	: John Eggleston
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 401
Release	: 2013-05-13
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1136468609

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The subject matter of this book – what happens in schools, the effects of curriculum change, the reasons why some children are successful and others are not – explains just why the sociology of education is one of the most important areas to achieve political importance. There are five sections to the book covering: Educational Achievement; Educational Provision; The Organization of the School; Roles in the School and Values and Learning. The editor discusses the implications of the material presented (much of which was available for the first time when this book was originally published).

Doing Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)

by Geoffrey Walford

Author	: Geoffrey Walford
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 362
Release	: 2012-05-16
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1136462082

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This collection of specially commissioned articles exposes the practical and personal influences on the process of doing sociology of education. All of the authors have been involved in conducting well know major research projects, and discuss here the pitfalls and problems, conflicts and compromises that went into doing their particular research. A particular feature of the book is that a wide variety of types of research in the sociology of education is covered. The range is from small-scale ethnographic case studies to large-scale postal questionnaire sample surveys and includes studies based on interviews, observation and questionnaires. There are examples of longitudinal work in case studies and in surveys. The collection also includes discussions of action research, the development and influence of theory, and the relationship between research and policy.

Sociology and the School (RLE Edu L)

by Peter Woods

Author	: Peter Woods
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 226
Release	: 2012-05-16
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1136465022

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This is an introduction to interactionist work in education during the 1970s and 80s. The interactionist viewpoint concentrates on how people construct meanings in the ebb and flow of everyday life – what they think and do, how they react to one another – and has in recent years established itself as one of the leading approaches in education. It has generated illuminating research studies which, by being firmly based in the real world of teaching and dealing with the fine-grained details of school life, have helped to break down the barriers between teacher and researcher. This volume presents the results of this valuable work, within a coherent theoretical framework, by focusing on the major interactionist concepts of situation, perspectives, cultures, strategies, negotiation and careers. By bringing them together in this way, the author demonstrates their collective potential for the deeper understanding of school life and the possibilities for sociological theory. His book therefore offers both a summary of and a reflection on achievement in the area of interactionism as it relates to schools.

Cultures of Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

by Mary Kalantzis

Author	: Mary Kalantzis
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 282
Release	: 2012-05-04
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1136468315

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This volume examines the ways schools respond to cultural and linguistic diversity. A richness of accumulated experience is portrayed in this study of six Australian secondary schools; partial success, near success or instructive failure as the culture of the school itself was transformed in an attempt to meet the educational needs of its students. Set in the context of a general historical background to the development of multicultural education in Australia, a theoretical framework is developed with which to analyze the move from the traditional curriculum of cultural assimilation to the progressivist curriculum of cultural pluralism. The book analyzes the limitations of the progressivist model of multicultural education and suggests a new ‘post-progressivist’ model, in evidence already in an incipient and as yet tentative ‘self-corrective’ trend in the case-study schools.

Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

by Phillip Brown

Author	: Phillip Brown
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 274
Release	: 2012-05-23
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1136470069

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What unites the contributors to this book is an opposition to Thatcherite policies on education and an agreement upon the need for the development of democracy in education. This volume highlights the importance of an area of neglected theoretical and practical concern: the development of a critique of the philosophy and policies of the new Right, and of credible alternative policies.

Marxism and Education (RLE Edu L)

by Madan Sarup

Author	: Madan Sarup
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 242
Release	: 2013-05-13
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1136460667

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This book introduces the student to the various phenomenological and humanistic Marxist perspectives as they are being applied to education and provides an account of the strengths and weaknesses of these perspectives, drawing on a variety of disciplines in order to explain the controversies described. The opening chapters deal with the phenomenological perspective in the sociology of education, discussing its adoption of a phenomenological model of man, its use of anthropological studies, the importance of classroom studies, and its rejection of the ‘liberal’ philosophy of education. The aim is to show the significance of these ideas for education, with a discussion of the concept of alienation and schooling, developments in Marxism such as the focus on the mode of production and the labour process, and the political economy of education.

Privatization and Privilege in Education (RLE Edu L)

by Geoffrey Walford

Author	: Geoffrey Walford
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 145
Release	: 2012-05-16
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1136461523

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Can privilege be bought? Arguments have raged over whether private education in the UK is ‘the cement in the wall’ dividing British society, or whether parental choice is, as has also been argued ‘a key component of a free society’. The author here describes the traditional private sector schools, paying attention to the ways in which parents can purchase privilege for their children through attendance at such schools. He argues that the privatized system is kept under tight control if a growth in social and educational inequality and a deepening of social class and ethnic group division is to be avoided. The book is unique in combining an account of private schools in Britain with an examination of the process of privatization.

Education and the Social Condition (RLE Edu L)

by Harold Silver

Author	: Harold Silver
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 226
Release	: 2012-05-16
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1136461388

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This book reviews the educational experience of the 1960s and 1970s and to suggest ways of approaching major contemporary themes such as equality, accountability and standards. The author underlines a nineteenth and twentieth-century sociological tradition in analysing education and covers a range of educational themes including aspects of schooling and higher education, education as social policy, knowledge as power, and teaching and adolescence. He draws on the social history of many of the processes, concepts and debates. Parts of the book derive from research into the history and contemporary forms of these problems in the USA. The volume therefore illuminates important contemporary issues in education and society by using historical, sociological and comparative insights.