Class, Culture and Education (RLE Edu L)
Class, Culture and Education (RLE Edu L)

Author: Harold Entwistle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1136470484

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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 different social groups is taken up through examination of the assumption that schools are middle-class institutions, and the claims and counter claims about the possibility of there being a common culture as the basis for a common curriculum in comprehensive schools. The concept of culture and, especially the meaning of working-class culture receives examination in this context as well as the thesis that any sub-culture constitutes an adequate or valid way of life.

Class, Culture and Education
Class, Culture and Education

Author: Harold Entwistle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-12-08

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0415500745

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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 different social groups is taken up through examination of the assumption that schools are middle-class institutions, and the claims and counter claims about the possibility of there being a common culture as the basis for a common curriculum in comprehensive schools. The concept of culture and, especially the meaning of working-class culture receives examination in this context as well as the thesis that any sub-culture constitutes an adequate or valid way of life.

Contemporary Research in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)
Contemporary Research in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)

Author: John Eggleston

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1136468609

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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 the book covering: Educational Achievement; Educational Provision; The Organization of the School; Roles in the School and Values and Learning. The editor discusses the implications of the material presented (much of which was available for the first time when this book was originally published).

Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

Author: Phillip Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 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.

Race, Class and Education (RLE Edu L)
Race, Class and Education (RLE Edu L)

Author: Len Barton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-04

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 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.

Towards Successful Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
Towards Successful Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

Author: Hugh Lauder

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-23

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1136469990

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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 provides some indication of how policies of decentralization in education might be used to develop egalitarian and democratic educational policies. In recent years there have been major changes to educational systems in the Western world. Often these changes have been justified by reference to successful educational practices in other countries. However, it is not always possible simply to abstract educational practices from one context and apply them in another successfully. Moreover claims that policies in one country are more successful than those in another have to be treated cautiously: there are always problems in making valid comparisons between the educational performances of different countries. It is important, therefore, that critical and comparative studies are made of educational systems which take full account of the contexts in which they are embedded.

Marxism/Structuralism/Education (RLE Edu L)
Marxism/Structuralism/Education (RLE Edu L)

Author: Madan Sarup

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-04

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 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.

English Education and the Radicals (RLE Edu L)
English Education and the Radicals (RLE Edu L)

Author: Harold Silver

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1136461213

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The radicalism of the period from the 1780s to the mid-nineteenth century represented a harnessing of knowledge in protest against injustices and oppression, a pooling of effort to transform society. In this book the author explores the main strains in working and middle-class radicalism over this crucial period, with emphasis on the educational ideas and activities of radical movements, their spokesmen and ideologies. The author stresses some of the central educational interests of radical movements through the radical organizations of the 1780s and 1790s, and early nineteenth-century political and social movements, including the utilitarians, Owenites, Chartists and Tory radicals. He discusses educational ideas and action with regard to infants and adults, basic literacy and political understanding, examines some of the forms of study, self-education and propaganda to political action. This book is a study in miniature of the processes of political and social change in a period of industrial, political and social revolution – its theme is education in its widest sense.

Educational Differences (RLE Edu L)
Educational Differences (RLE Edu L)

Author: Arthur Jensen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-16

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 1136461159

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Among particular issues discussed in this book are the problems of the cultural disadvantaged, the problems of devising psychological tests which are not biased towards any particular culture, the problems of minority groups of children in education and the relationship between heritability and teachability.