Schools and Societies
Author: Steven G. Brint
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780804750738
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Schools and Society
Author: Jeanne H. Ballantine
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2017-10-25
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 1544302398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. This comprehensive anthology features classical readings on the sociology of education, as well as current, original essays by notable contemporary scholars. Assigned as a main text or a supplement, this fully updated Sixth Edition uses the open systems approach to provide readers with a framework for understanding and analyzing the book’s range of topics. Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade, and new co-editor Jenny M. Stuber, all experienced researchers and instructors in this subject, have chosen articles that are highly readable, and that represent the field’s major theoretical perspectives, methods, and issues. The Sixth Edition includes twenty new selections and five revisions of original readings and features new perspectives on some of the most contested issues in the field today, such as school funding, gender issues in schools, parent and neighborhood influences on learning, growing inequality in schools, and charter schools.
If Schools Didn't Exist
Author: Nils Christie
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0262358484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA classic in the philosophy of education, considering the fundamental purpose and function of schools, translated into English for the first time. This classic 1971 work on the fundamental purpose and function of schools belongs on the same shelf as other landmark works of the era, including Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society, Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and John Holt's How Children Fail. Nils Christie's If School Didn't Exist, translated into English for the first time, departs from these works by not considering schooling (and deschooling) as much as schools and their specific community and social contexts. Christie argues that schools should be proving grounds for how to live together in society rather than assembly lines producing future citizens and employees.
Schools and Societies
Author: Steven Brint
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Published: 1998-01-14
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780803990593
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Schools and Societies" provides a synthesis of key issues in the sociology of education, focusing on American schools while offering a global, comparative context.
School, Society, and State
Author: Tracy L. Steffes
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-05-15
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0226772098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the connections between public school reform in the early twentieth century and American political development from 1890 to 1940.
Education and Society
Author: Thurston Domina
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2019-08-20
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0520295587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing 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.
Schooling as Violence
Author: Clive Harber
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780415344340
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarber argues that while schooling can play a positive role, violence towards children originating in the schools system itself is common, systematic and widespread and that schools play a significant role in encouraging violence in wider society.
Bilingualism in Schools and Society
Author: Sarah J. Shin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0415891043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an introduction to the social and educational aspects of bilingualism. It presents an overview of a broad range of sociolinguistic and political issues surrounding the use of two languages, including code-switching in popular music, advertising, and online social spaces. It offers a well-informed discussion of what it means to study and live with multiple languages in a globalized world and practical advice on raising bilingual children.
The Difference
Author: Scott E. Page
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008-08-11
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 1400830281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone? And why are the best group decisions and predictions those that draw upon the very qualities that make each of us unique? The answers lie in diversity--not what we look like outside, but what we look like within, our distinct tools and abilities. The Difference reveals that progress and innovation may depend less on lone thinkers with enormous IQs than on diverse people working together and capitalizing on their individuality. Page shows how groups that display a range of perspectives outperform groups of like-minded experts. Diversity yields superior outcomes, and Page proves it using his own cutting-edge research. Moving beyond the politics that cloud standard debates about diversity, he explains why difference beats out homogeneity, whether you're talking about citizens in a democracy or scientists in the laboratory. He examines practical ways to apply diversity's logic to a host of problems, and along the way offers fascinating and surprising examples, from the redesign of the Chicago "El" to the truth about where we store our ketchup. Page changes the way we understand diversity--how to harness its untapped potential, how to understand and avoid its traps, and how we can leverage our differences for the benefit of all.
Small Schools
Author: Michael Klonsky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-03-25
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 1135899169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen education activists in New York, Chicago, and other urban school districts in the 1980s began the small-schools movement, they envisioned a new kind of public school system that was fair and equitable and that encouraged new relationships between teachers and students. When that movement for school reform ran head-on into the neo-conservative takeover of the Department of Education and its No Child Left Behind strategy for school change, a new model of federal power bent on the erosion of public space and the privatization of public schooling emerged. Michael and Susan Klonsky, educators who were among the early leaders of the small-schools movement, tell the story of how a once-promising model of creating new small and charter schools has been used by the neocons to reproduce many of the old inequities. Small Schools is the engaging story of what happens when the small-schools movement meets the Ownership Society.
