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

Contemporary Research in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)
Author: John Eggleston
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136468595

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).

Working Class Community

Working Class Community
Author: Brian Jackson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1998
Genre: England, Northern
ISBN: 9780415176392

Annotation Originally published in 1968.

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

Marxist Perspectives in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
Author: Maurice Levitas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113646817X

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.

Race, Class and Education (RLE Edu L)

Race, Class and Education (RLE Edu L)
Author: Len Barton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136471324

One problem which continues to absorb social scientists is the way in which so much social deprivation stems from racial or class status. The discussion in this book is developed in two ways: firstly, careful attention is given to an examination of the way minority groups create and maintain collective identities and action. Secondly, the relationship between this movement and such topics as racism in schools, schooling, unemployment and West Indian involvement in sporting rather than academic activities is analysed, together with the nature of the educational experience of different class and gender groups.

The Sociology of Educational Inequality

The Sociology of Educational Inequality
Author: William Tyler
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2011-12-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415505976

What is the most significant factor for explaining why some individuals are more successful than others - genetic inheritance, privileged background or luck? Although conventional approaches stress the prime importance of one of these, Tyler argues that such theories fail to deal adequately with the complexity of educational inequality and suggests that Boudon's model of opportunity and mobility would provide us with a more productive explanation. By applying this model to post-war British education he shows how we might effectively think our approaches to the 'cycle of deprivation', comprehensive reform and educational spending.

Marxism and Education

Marxism and Education
Author: Madan Sarup
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-12-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415506328

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.

Sociology and the School (RLE Edu L)

Sociology and the School (RLE Edu L)
Author: Peter Woods
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-05-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136465022

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.

Social Control and Education

Social Control and Education
Author: Brian Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2011-12-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415689465

Social control is a central sociological concept which has generated many influential 'models' of man in society. This book examines these major models, and examines the rise of compulsory schooling in Britain and the USA and shows us which aspects of education and social control have been elaborated or neglected in the sociology of education down to the mid 1970s.

Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L)

Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L)
Author: Ann Berlak
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2012-04-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136471049

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.

Education and the Social Condition (RLE Edu L)

Education and the Social Condition (RLE Edu L)
Author: Harold Silver
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-05-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136461388

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.