Towards Successful Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

Towards Successful Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
Author: Hugh Lauder
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2012-05-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136469990

The editors have compiled this critical and comparative study of changes which took place in the New Zealand education system in the second half of the twentieth century. For other Western societies who have felt the impact of New Right policies the New Zealand case is interesting because it provides some indication of how policies of decentralization in education might be used to develop egalitarian and democratic educational policies. In recent years there have been major changes to educational systems in the Western world. Often these changes have been justified by reference to successful educational practices in other countries. However, it is not always possible simply to abstract educational practices from one context and apply them in another successfully. Moreover claims that policies in one country are more successful than those in another have to be treated cautiously: there are always problems in making valid comparisons between the educational performances of different countries. It is important, therefore, that critical and comparative studies are made of educational systems which take full account of the contexts in which they are embedded.

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.

The Family, Education and Society

The Family, Education and Society
Author: Frank Musgrove
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1966
Genre: Education
ISBN: 041550631X

In this provocative study the author challenges many contemporary assumptions about the modern family, the circumstances of home life which lead to academic success and the proper relationship between home and school. The modern family is not 'in decline'; its history is a success story. It is stable, unsociable, emotionally potent. Over the past three centuries it has turned its back on society. It is less remarkable for rebellious children than for the remorseless pressures it can exert upon the young, particularly for 'success' in the school system. In the home-centred society the school is an extension of the home, created in its image. Academic success seems most certain when the 'good home' and the 'good school' form a determined alliance. The combined pressures of home and school often seem to produce withdrawn, self-disparaging and negative young men and women. The author argues that the good school must counter-act many of the influences of the good home and that the educational system must re-order its affairs so that it is able to encourage and assess achievement which comes from joy rather than neurotic drive.

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.

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.

The Social Context of the School (RLE Edu L)

The Social Context of the School (RLE Edu L)
Author: John Eggleston
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2012-05-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136461000

In their appearance, schools often seem to be physically separated from their surroundings, cut off from the neighbouring houses and streets by high walls, by playgrounds or playing fields. Within the school, another world seems to exist, with a life of its own – its own routine, dress, rules and customs – which appears to have little relationship to the day-to-day life of the society outside. Yet despite these signs of separateness, we are becoming increasingly aware that a school’s surroundings, the local society in which it is set and whose children it educates, play an important part in determining what actually goes on in the classrooms and the playgrounds. This book looks at some of the factors in the local context of the schools and describes and analyses some of the often complex ways in which the schools interact with them.

Teacher Strategies

Teacher Strategies
Author: Peter Woods
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1980
Genre: Educational sociology
ISBN: 9780709901785

Pupil Strategies

Pupil Strategies
Author: Peter Woods
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2011-12-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415505887

What do pupils actually do in school? There are remarkably few studies that take the pupils' perspective and reconstruct experience from their point of view within the context of their own cultures and careers. This volume brings together a number of research studies on various aspects of how pupils cope with schools. The theoretical papers consider amongst other issues a developmental model of the growth of pupil strategies based on primary and secondary socialisation; a discussion of 'interactionist empiricism' which argues for co-ordinated research between micro and macro perspectives and an extended overview of the general sociological background of work on teacher and pupil strategies. The empirical articles consider a number of themes ranging from strategies employed in answering teacher questions to the power and influence of the pupil peer group in the development of attitudes and behaviour.

Educability, Schools and Ideology (RLE Edu L)

Educability, Schools and Ideology (RLE Edu L)
Author: MICHAEL Flude
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136470417

The sociology of education has been at the forefront of new developments in sociological theory. This book examines and criticizes a number of these new developments and discusses some empirical work on issues of current concern. One of the few books that integrates radical and critical sociology into the field of education, it deals with the resultant difficulties. The topics covered include cultural deprivation, ideologies in education, classrooms, the teaching profession and the history of women’s education.