Education as a Social Factor (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

by Leonard M Jacks

Author	: Leonard M Jacks
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 218
Release	: 2012-05-04
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1136468455

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This volume presents a short survey of education at the beginning of the twentieth century. It considered the main educational agencies of that time, the home, the Church, the school and the university and the role to be played by each in preparing the citizens of the future. The author maintains that religion and education are intimately connected and therefore he discusses education in its broadest sense: preparation for being not just a citizen in the United Kingdom but in human existence as a whole.

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).

Streaming (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

by Brian Jackson

Author	: Brian Jackson
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 178
Release	: 2012-05-04
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1136468382

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In this volume a streamed school is studied in detail and parents’ responses are recorded. Eleven plus is (and has been) under criticism, but many children are selected by a ‘seven plus’ because they are streamed into A, B or C classes. Few children escape the label once it is pinned on them – less than six in one hundred change their stream. The study shows that on a national sample the date on which a child is born – irrespective of his ability – affects his or her stream at the age of 7 and his results at eleven plus. Finally ten streamed schools are compared, academically and socially, with ten unstreamed schools. In the final chapters the author makes practical proposals by which primary schools could recognise and increase the flow of gifted children.

Marxist Perspectives in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

by Maurice Levitas

Author	: Maurice Levitas
Publisher	: Routledge
Total Pages	: 226
Release	: 2012-05-04
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 113646817X

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The major theories explored are those concerned with social mobility and those which derive from a relativist position in Sociology, both of which see education as a selection mechanism for a stratified society. Social class, family, sociolinguistics and schools are among the topics discussed. In this analysis the author: defines key areas in the sociology of education gives access to important concepts of Marx and Engels strengthens sociological starting points by adding a Marxist element discriminates between radically different directions in education maps the main features of long-term working class goals This thoroughgoing Marxist critique of widely prevalent notions in the sociology of education provides a compass by which place and direction in this area of education may be found by students, teachers and parents.

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.

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.

Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum (RLE Edu L)

by Len Barton

Author	: Len Barton
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages	: 204
Release	: 2012-04-27
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1136471189

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Although the different contributions to this book range over a wide spectrum of substantive issues, they share a common interest. This is a concern to explore the ways in which notions of the relations between theory and practice, between belief and action, can be used to develop three kinds of sensitivity in the sociology of education. A sensitivity towards how school systems are created, maintained and made to function; towards developing a more refined, critical and constructive awareness of the reliability and validity of descriptions, analyses and explanations offered in this field of study; and a sensitivity towards the ways in which changes take place within the education system and how the insights and realisations generated in the discipline might be used to control such occurrences.

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.

Social Crisis and Educational Research (RLE Edu L)

by Len Barton

Author	: Len Barton
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages	: 354
Release	: 2012-04-27
Genre	: Education
ISBN	: 1136471111

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Originally written at a time of crisis in the education system of Britain – occasioned by cuts, contradictions and change - many of the issues discussed in this book are still relevant today. Debate in the book focuses upon an examination of the nature of the crisis, an exploration of the impact of the crisis upon school processes and upon the relationship between life in school and in the wider community, an investigation of the responses being made by pupils, teachers and educationalists to the day-to-day manifestations of the crisis and a consideration of how the current crisis is giving a particular poignancy to issues to do with the theories and methods employed in our study and interpretation of contemporary educational processes.