Sociology of Education

This book is framed around the notion of a ‘new sociology of elite education’, bringing together a new array of conceptual and theoretical tools while also deepening those that already exist. The contributions examine various configurations of contemporary class making and their attendant politics i..

Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-Western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children—as well as what counts for them as "education"—may help rea..

Informative and mind-opening, this text uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of a range of non-Western approaches to educational thought and practice. Its premise is that understanding the ways that other people educate their children—as well as what counts for them as "education"—may help rea..

In-depth ethnographic study, w/ systematic data collection, of a Freirean-based adult literacy program in rural El Salvador, using a sociolinguistic literacy devel. lens. Highlights the relevance of resulting insights & principles for adult literacy educ..

Provides legal & historical background information and counter-arguments against censorship challenges. From the organized religious right, to works of literature used in the public schools...

Helps educators develop the knowledge and skills they need for reading and interpreting the patterns that constitute the social texts of everyday life in school organizations, thus becoming empowered to initiate effective schoolwide change efforts...

This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in disability studies over the last 18 years with over twenty essential articles from the journal of Disability and Society...

First published in 1971, this book argues that schools at the time were underpowered, due partly to circumstances within contemporary educational institutions, but chiefly to their relationships with the wider social environment. _x005F_x000D_ The book focuses particularly on the bureaucratization o..

The basis of Bernstein’s sociology of education lays in is his theorisation of the different approaches to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and the implications for pedagogic rights and social justice. This edited collection presents 15 empirical case studies and theoretical accounts from 22 inte..

Breaking new ground by presenting a range of approaches to understanding the role, function, impact, and presence of performance in education, this volume is a definitive contribution to a beginning dialogue on how performance, as a theoretical and..

This book, first published in 1986, explores the experiences of teachers and pupils in programmes of physical education from a sociological perspective...

_x005F_x000D_ Pierre Bourdieu and Physical Culture is the first book to focus on the significance of Bourdieu’s work for, and in, physical culture. Bringing together the work of leading and emerging international researchers, it introduces the core concepts in Bourdieu’s thought and work, and presen..