Contemporary Research in the Sociology of Education
Author: John Eggleston
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
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Doing Sociology of Education
Author: Geoffrey Walford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-12-08
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0415505992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of specially commissioned articles exposes the practical and personal influences on the process of doing sociology of education. All of the authors have been involved in conducting well know major research projects, and discuss here the pitfalls and problems, conflicts and compromises that went into doing their particular research. A particular feature of the book is that a wide variety of types of research in the sociology of education is covered. The range is from small-scale ethnographic case studies to large-scale postal questionnaire sample surveys and includes studies based on interviews, observation and questionnaires. There are examples of longitudinal work in case studies and in surveys. The collection also includes discussions of action research, the development and influence of theory, and the relationship between research and policy.
Contemporary Research in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)
Author: John Eggleston
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1136468595
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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).
Contemporary Research in the Sociology of Education
Author: John Eggleston
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780415615174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParadigm and Ideology in Educational Research (RLE Edu L)
Author: Thomas Popkewitz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-04
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1136465790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 considers first the communal, crafts and social characteristics of educational research. Three research models empirical-analytic, symbolic or linguistic and critical sciences are given attention. The discussion of the three research models is to illuminate how the constellation of commitments, assumptions and practices inter-relate to perform a paradigm giving different and conflicting definitions to the meaning of educational theory and to the use of the particular techniques of enquiry. The social role of educational research and the researcher is also considered.
Sociology and the School (RLE Edu L)
Author: Peter Woods
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-16
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1136465022
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 as one of the leading approaches in education. It has generated illuminating research studies which, by being firmly based in the real world of teaching and dealing with the fine-grained details of school life, have helped to break down the barriers between teacher and researcher. This volume presents the results of this valuable work, within a coherent theoretical framework, by focusing on the major interactionist concepts of situation, perspectives, cultures, strategies, negotiation and careers. By bringing them together in this way, the author demonstrates their collective potential for the deeper understanding of school life and the possibilities for sociological theory. His book therefore offers both a summary of and a reflection on achievement in the area of interactionism as it relates to schools.
The Middling Sorts
Author: Maureen T. Hallinan
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2000-04-30
Total Pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9780415926416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wide-ranging handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of education as viewed from a sociological perspective. Experts in the area present theoretical and empirical research on major educational issues and analyze the social processes that govern schooling, and the role of schools in and their impact on contemporary society. A major reference work for social scientists who want an overview of the field, graduate students, and educators.
Rethinking Sociological Critique in Contemporary Education
Author: Radhika Gorur
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-12-19
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1003831966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores a new repertoire for critique in the sociology of contemporary education, focusing on emerging social theories that respond to contemporary challenges in education, education policy and governance. Presenting a variety of approaches in the sociology of education including pragmatist critical sociology, neo-Marxism, post-digital sociology, new materialisms, affirmative critique of education, and post-colonial studies, the chapters in this book engage in a novel, collective dialogue and reflection on the affordances, limitations and challenges of emerging social theories in contemporary education. The book further justifies this novel approach through inclusion of a series of interviews with leading scholars and thinkers from within and outside the field of education on the subject of critique in contemporary society and education. The book offers relevant global and decolonial perspectives to study current transformations, drawing on innovations in theorizing and empirical illustrations from different countries. Highlighting alternative visions of these transformations in an era of globalization, fragmentation, and growing nationalism, this cutting-edge book will be of great interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of the sociology of education, the philosophy of education, social theory, political science and comparative policy and politics more broadly.
Social Crisis and Educational Research (RLE Edu L)
Author: Len Barton
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2012-04-27
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 1136471111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally 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 the crisis upon school processes and upon the relationship between life in school and in the wider community, an investigation of the responses being made by pupils, teachers and educationalists to the day-to-day manifestations of the crisis and a consideration of how the current crisis is giving a particular poignancy to issues to do with the theories and methods employed in our study and interpretation of contemporary educational processes.
Education and the Social Condition (RLE Edu L)
Author: Harold Silver
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-16
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1136461388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reviews the educational experience of the 1960s and 1970s and to suggest ways of approaching major contemporary themes such as equality, accountability and standards. The author underlines a nineteenth and twentieth-century sociological tradition in analysing education and covers a range of educational themes including aspects of schooling and higher education, education as social policy, knowledge as power, and teaching and adolescence. He draws on the social history of many of the processes, concepts and debates. Parts of the book derive from research into the history and contemporary forms of these problems in the USA. The volume therefore illuminates important contemporary issues in education and society by using historical, sociological and comparative insights.
