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Classroom Environment (RLE Edu O)
Av Barry Fraser
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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The increasing impact of performance based judgments on schools and teachers in the classroom has its critics and supporters. Some oppose the trend and seek to deny the importance of quantitative measures. Others have sought to find ways of implementing educational measurement constructively and …
Contemporary Research in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)
Inbunden, 2011
2995 kr
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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 …
Class, Culture and Education (RLE Edu L)
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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This book examines the concepts of equality, class, culture, work and leisure and explores their interrelationship through the discussion of some current problems, especially the problems posed for schools for the ‘culturally deprived.’ The debate about differential provision of schooling for …
Educability, Schools and Ideology (RLE Edu L)
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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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 …
Education For A New Society (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
Av Ernest Green, Harold Shearman
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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Aimed at the layperson, this book discusses education for the man or woman in the street and the advantages to society of having an educated population, with the aim of not just convincing people of the importance of education but persuading them to take participate actively in education.
Emotion and Delinquency (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
A Clinical Study of Five Hundred Criminals in the Making
Av L Grimberg
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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Inevitably a product of the time in which it was published this book discusses important questions of neuro-psychology as well as setting out the early ‘nature versus nurture’ debate. The author also argues for changes in the care and education of those with learning difficulties to enable them to …
Education and the Working Class (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
Av Brian Jackson, Dennis Marsden
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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When first published this book had a significant influence on the campaign for comprehensive schools and it spoke to generations of working-class students who were either deterred by the class barriers erected by selective schools and elite universities, or, having broken through them to gain …
Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
In Search of A Future
Inbunden, 2011
747 kr
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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 …
Towards Successful Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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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 …
Language, Schools and Classrooms (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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The role of language is central in education – but there is much debate about the exact relation between children’s language and their educational success. The author provides a clear guide to the basic issues in the debates over language deficit, standard English and classroom language, and in …
Education and Society (RLE Edu L)
Av E Biaggini
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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This volume discusses how the lay-person responds to written appeals to his intelligence and feelings with particular emphasis on education and culture. The author indicates a possible approach to the task of investigation rather than all that can be done with the method employed. The second part …
Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L)
Teaching and Social Change
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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This study illuminates how the everyday activity of teachers raises profound economic, cultural, ethical, political and research issues, and provides a new and fruitful way of examining the practice of teaching. The first part of the book offers a detailed description of sensitively recorded school …
Race, Class and Education (RLE Edu L)
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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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 …
Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum (RLE Edu L)
Av Len Barton, Roland Meighan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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Although the different contributions to this book range over a wide spectrum of substantive issues, they share a common interest. This is a concern to explore the ways in which notions of the relations between theory and practice, between belief and action, can be used to develop three kinds of …
Social Crisis and Educational Research (RLE Edu L)
Inbunden, 2011
2995 kr
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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 …
Education, Class Language and Ideology (RLE Edu L)
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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This book presents an analysis of the ‘essentialist ideology’, which is inherent to class-based societies. The author argues that essentialist ideology is efficient through its unconscious component and is imposed on everyone. It guides school selection and imposes on each class a language specific …
Rationality, Education and the Social Organization of Knowledege (RLE Edu L)
Av Chris Jenks
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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The manner in which we variously come to an understanding of our world presents problems for us all, but the unified method by which we ought best to acquire such knowledge represents the particular problem of contemporary education. This important book seeks to explore some of the underlying …
Education as a Social Factor (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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This volume presents a short survey of education at the beginning of the twentieth century. It considered the main educational agencies of that time, the home, the Church, the school and the university and the role to be played by each in preparing the citizens of the future. The author maintains …
Streaming (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
An Education System in Miniature
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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In this volume a streamed school is studied in detail and parents’ responses are recorded. Eleven plus is (and has been) under criticism, but many children are selected by a ‘seven plus’ because they are streamed into A, B or C classes. Few children escape the label once it is pinned on them – less …
Cultures of Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access
Av Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1486 kr
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This volume examines the ways schools respond to cultural and linguistic diversity. A richness of accumulated experience is portrayed in this study of six Australian secondary schools; partial success, near success or instructive failure as the culture of the school itself was transformed in an …
Marxist Perspectives in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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The major theories explored are those concerned with social mobility and those which derive from a relativist position in Sociology, both of which see education as a selection mechanism for a stratified society. Social class, family, sociolinguistics and schools are among the topics discussed. In …
Classrooms Observed (RLE Edu L)
The Teacher's Perception and the Pupil's Peformance
Av Roy Nash
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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In this study – the outcome of three years’ participant observation in local authority primary and secondary schools – the classroom teacher is shown to have a far greater impact upon and responsibility for his pupils than is generally admitted. The teacher’s perceptions of the children in his …
Schooling in Rural Societies (RLE Edu L)
Av Roy Nash
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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In industrialized societies the needs of people living in remote and sparsely populated areas are easily overlooked, whilst in developing countries the needs of the rural population are at once so obvious and so enormous that our practical concern is blunted. In this volume it is clearly …
Paradigm and Ideology in Educational Research (RLE Edu L)
The Social Functions of the Intellectual
Inbunden, 2011
747 kr
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This book explores the complex social assumptions and values that underlie research programmes about schools. The analysis of educational research draws upon American and European scholarships in the sociology of knowledge, social philosophy and the history and sociology of science. The discussion …
Marx and Education in Russia and China (RLE Edu L)
Av R Price
Inbunden, 2011
2995 kr
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To many education students, Russian and/or Chinese education is at the same time their introduction to Marxism, and many students go no further. This book sets the record straight by giving a thorough introduction to the writings of Marx himself as they relate to education. It shows what Marxism …
Education and Poverty (RLE Edu L)
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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This book describes the attempts that have been made to achieve an educational policy relevant to those most disadvantaged in our society; examines the different ways in which sociologists have conceptualized the related problems; and evaluates the success of the policy. He suggests that we are in …
Maladjusted Schooling (RLE Edu L)
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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The problems this book discusses are the same now as they were 25 years ago: unemployment, poor housing, inadequate facilities, poverty, racism, violence. What is the function of a school in such a situation? Although many schools hold reformist ideals, their practice is constrained by …
Divided School
Av Peter Woods
Inbunden, 2011
2995 kr
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In this ethnographic study of a secondary school in the UK, the author presents an incisive account of school life from the various points of view of the pupils, teachers and parents. He describes and analyses major areas of experience and methods of adapting to school for both the children and …
Sociology and the School (RLE Edu L)
Av Peter Woods
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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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 …
School Organisation (RLE Edu L)
A Sociological Perspective
Inbunden, 2011
2454 kr
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The internal organisation of the school touches on many areas of contemporary debate. Is there such a thing as a ‘good school’? Are large urban comprehensives necessarily impersonal? Are the charges of indiscipline, conflict and declining standards in modern schools based on a failure to understand …
