Social Control and Education (RLE Edu L)

Social Control and Education (RLE Edu L)
Author: Brian Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136470697

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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.

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

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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.

Social Control and Education

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

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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.

Social Crisis and Educational Research (RLE Edu L)

Social Crisis and Educational Research (RLE Edu L)
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.

Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
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.

Doing Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)

Doing Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)
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.

Marxism/Structuralism/Education (RLE Edu L)

Marxism/Structuralism/Education (RLE Edu L)
Author: Madan Sarup
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136460403

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This interdisciplinary textbook provides an introduction to the many theoretical developments and controversies which took place in the sociology and politics of education during the 1970s and 80s. The book Discusses the arguments concerning humanist and structuralist Marixsm. Provides a clear and concise introduction to structuralism and post-structuralism (work of Derrida, Lacan and Foucault) and theorises in the ways they contribute to Marxism or are subversive of it. Relates these theoretical perspectives to education and the practice of teachers.

Marxism and Education (RLE Edu L)

Marxism and Education (RLE Edu L)
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.

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

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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.