Sociology of Education

This book re-evaluates the debate over why so many boys are failing at school, moving it from a focus on gender construction and the panic about achievement to the broader question of what it is to experience being schooled as a boy in the new liberal educational environment...

This compelling and provocative book will be essential reading for anyone involved in research and debates about the curriculum as well as those with a specific interest in the sociology of education...

Emerging from two decades of exponential growth is a population of nearly 100 million floating children and left-behind children. This book offers an analysis of how oscillations of government discourse have come to shape central and local educational policies regarding the schooling of these childr..

Centered on a case study of a mid-Atlantic charter school, this book identifies the key factors that help Black male students navigate high school in spite of traditional and historical barriers...

This book draws on research of middle class parents' choice of childcare, providing an in-depth analysis of consumer and producer behaviour in the childcare marketplace, and encompasses broader issues such as social class, gender, and parenting...

First published in 1979, this book is based on a national survey that was commissioned by the Social Science Research Council and on action to help childminders funded by the Wates Foundation at Manchester University, UK. It evaluates the number and nature of the childminders in Britain that were lo..

First published in 1979, this book is based on a national survey that was commissioned by the Social Science Research Council and on action to help childminders funded by the Wates Foundation at Manchester University, UK. It evaluates the number and nature of the childminders in Britain that were lo..

This timely and thought-provoking book explores how social and family change are colouring the experience of childhood...

This is a combinated work concerning children's lives in modern cities which brings together international scholars at the forefront of the debate...

This is a combinated work concerning children's lives in modern cities which brings together international scholars at the forefront of the debate...

Using critical curriculum theory as its lens, this book explores the relationship between religion—specifically, Christianity and the Judeo-Christian ethos underlying it—and secular public education in the United States. Despite various 20th-century court decisions separating religion and education,..

Citizenship education in China has undergone a number of transformations as the political system has sought to cope with market reforms, globalization and pressures both externally and within the country for broader political reforms. This book aims to provide a voice for Chinese scholars of citizen..