Author: Tomas Boronski
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1473934060
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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‘An essential student-friendly text for Education Studies.’ Dr Gillian Forrester, Subject Head for Education & Early Childhood Studies, Liverpool John Moores University ‘Introducing students to the complexities of Education Studies is a difficult task and this book will go a long way to making it easier. I will definitely be recommending this to all my students.’ Kevin Brain, Programme Leader, Education Studies, Leeds Trinity University This textbook explains the basic principles of sociology and relates these concepts to today’s society and education system in order to deepen your understanding of how these issues affect our lives and the world we live in, encouraging you to think critically and to develop a ‘sociological imagination’. Coverage includes: the wider political and economic context for education in the UK, including an analysis of the reforms of the 2010 coalition government childhood, schooling and pupil voice non-traditional consideration of critical pedagogy, ‘race’ and gender the role of education in a multicultural society inequalities in educational opportunity in terms of class, ethnicity and disability. This is essential reading for students on undergraduate Education Studies degrees, and for sociology courses covering educational issues.

Author: Barbara Schneider
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319766945
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 614

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This handbook unifies access and opportunity, two key concepts of sociology of education, throughout its 25 chapters. It explores today’s populations rarely noticed, such as undocumented students, first generation college students, and LGBTQs; and emphasizing the intersectionality of gender, race, ethnicity and social class. Sociologists often center their work on the sources and consequences of inequality. This handbook, while reviewing many of these explanations, takes a different approach, concentrating instead on what needs to be accomplished to reduce inequality. A special section is devoted to new methodological work for studying social systems, including network analyses and school and teacher effects. Additionally, the book explores the changing landscape of higher education institutions, their respective populations, and how labor market opportunities are enhanced or impeded by differing postsecondary education pathways. Written by leading sociologists and rising stars in the field, each of the chapters is embedded in theory, but contemporary and futuristic in its implications. This Handbook serves as a blueprint for identifying new work for sociologists of education and other scholars and policymakers trying to understand many of the problems of inequality in education and what is needed to address them.

Author: Jeanne Ballantine
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317348508
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Putting Sociology to Work; Chapter 4 Gender, Race, and Class: Attempts to Achieve Equality of Educational Opportunity; Gender and Equality of Educational Opportunity; Class, Race, and Attempts to Rectify Inequalities in Educational Opportunity; Integration Attempts; Educational Experience of Selected Minorities in the United States; Improving Schools for Minority Students; Summary; Putting Sociology to Work; Chapter 5 The School as an Organization; The Social System of the School; Goals of the School System; The School as an Organization.

Author: Karen Robson
Publisher: Pearson Education Canada
ISBN: 0133076806
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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Sociology of Education in Canada utilizes a contemporary theoretical focus to analyze how education in Canada is affected by pre-existing and persistent inequalities among members of society. It presents the historical and cultural factors that have shaped our current education system, examines the larger social trends that have contributed to present problems, discusses the various interest groups involved, and analyzes the larger social discourses that influence any discussion of these issues. To achieve this, Karen Robson uses many current, topical, and relatable issues in Canadian education to ensure that readers fully comprehend the information being presented and leave with an appreciation of how the sociology of education is inextricably linked to issues of stratification.

Author: Thurston Domina
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520295587
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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Drawing on current scholarship, Education and Society takes students on a journey through the many roles that education plays in contemporary societies. Addressing students’ own experience of education before expanding to larger sociological conversations, Education and Society helps readers understand and engage with such topics as peer groups, gender and identity, social class, the racialization of achievement, the treatment of immigrant children, special education, school choice, accountability, discipline, global perspectives, and schooling as a social institution. The book prompts students to evaluate how schools organize our society and how society organizes our schools. Moving from students to schooling to social forces, Education and Society provides a lively and engaging introduction to theory and research and will serve as a cornerstone for courses such as sociology of education, foundations of education, critical issues in education, and school and society.

Author: Rolf Becker
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788110420
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Presenting original contributions from the key experts in the field, the Research Handbook on the Sociology of Education explores the major theoretical, methodological, empirical and political challenges and pressing social questions facing education in current times.

Author: John Beck
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000680312
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 830

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By including material from literary, philosophical, and anthropological sources, and by selecting readings which consider educational practice both within and beyond formal educational contexts, this book broadens the character of sociological inquiry in education. The editors bring together material they have found valuable when working with students of education and sociology at all levels. Many of these articles and extracts are either inaccessible or have not been reprinted. The collection should stimulate inquiry about the assumptions underlying current debates on curriculum, streaming, school organization, methods of teachin, and preconceived notions of ability.

Author: Patricia J. Gumport
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 0801892155
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 609

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“Outstanding . . . it presents a comprehensive state of the field, and it explores the role of sociological research in guiding higher education practice.” —Choice In this volume, Patricia Gumport and other leading scholars examine the sociology of higher education as it has evolved since the publication of Burton Clark’s foundational article in 1973. They trace diverse conceptual and empirical developments along several major lines of specialization and analyze the ways in which wider societal and institutional changes in higher education have influenced this vital field of study. In her own chapters, Gumport identifies the factors that constrain or facilitate the field’s development, including different intellectual legacies and professional contexts for faculty in sociology and in education. She also considers prospects for the future legitimacy and vitality of the field. Featuring extensive reviews of the literature, this volume will be invaluable for scholars and students of sociology and higher education.

Author: S.S. Chandra
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788171566358
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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The Present Book Is A Comprehensive Attempt To Critically Discuss Sociology Of Education. It Covers The Syllabi Of Various Universities For M.A. (Sociology), B.Ed. And M.Ed. Examinations. Part One Of The Book Provides An Introduction To The Subject, Through A Discussion Of The Meaning, Type And Functions Of Education; Aims And Objectives Of Education; Agencies Of Education; Evaluation Of The Current Educational Pattern; Curriculum; Teaching Devices And Innovations In Teaching. Part Two Starts With An Introduction To Educational Sociology And Proceeds To Discuss Socialization And Family; Peer Group And Education; The College; Social Functions Of Education; Education, State And Community; Impact Of Social Stratification In India; Education And Modernization In India; Social Change And Social Control Through Education; Deschooling Society; Teacher S Role In Society; Education And Economic Order; Values And Education; Education And Culture; Education For International Understanding; Education For Democracy; Education For Socialistic Pattern Of Society; The Disturbed Campus And Materialism In Education And National Emotional Integration. The Work Is Analytic In Presentation And Synthetic In Discussing The Subject Matter, To Provide An Ideal Textbook On The Subject.The Book Will Be Found Useful Not Only By The Students But Also By The Teachers, Policy Makers And Common Readers.

Author: Alan R. Sadovnik
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9463007172
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Leaders in the Sociology of Education: Intellectual Self-Portraits contains eighteen self-portraits written by some of the leading sociologists of education in the world. Representing the United States, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong, the authors discuss a variety of factors that have affected their lifetime of scholarship, including their childhoods, their education and mentors, the state of the field during their “coming of age,” the institutions where they have worked, the major sociologists during their lifetimes, the political and economic conditions during their lifetimes, and the social and political movements during their lifetimes. These autobiographical essays reveal a great deal not only about their work and their influences, but also about themselves. Taken as a whole, the book provides sociology of knowledge about the creation of sociology of education research since the 1960s. It reveals a number of important themes central to all of the authors’ work, including educational inequality; the influence of the classical sociological theorists, Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim; and the influence of more recent classical sociologists of education, Basil Bernstein, Pierre Bourdieu and James Coleman. The authors’ research represents a variety of theoretical and methodological orientations including functionalism, conflict and critical theory, interactionist theory and feminist theory, as well as quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods research. Finally, the editors discuss a number of lessons to be learned from the lives and works of these sociologists of education.