Routledge Library Editions: Education 2011 Online Catalogue

Race, Class and Education (RLE Edu L)

Edited by Len Barton, Stephen Walker

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum (RLE Edu L)

Edited by Len Barton, Roland Meighan, Stephen Walker

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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Social Crisis and Educational Research (RLE Edu L)

Edited by Len Barton, Stephen Walker

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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Dilemmas of Schooling (RLE Edu L)

Teaching and Social Change

By Ann Berlak, Harold Berlak

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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Education and Society (RLE Edu L)

By E Biaggini

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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Education, Class Language and Ideology (RLE Edu L)

By Noelle Bisseret

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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The Research Process in Educational Settings (RLE Edu L)

Ten Case Studies

Edited by Robert Burgess

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This book presents a series of research biographies based on research experiences in the study of educational settings. The main aim is to provide a set of first person accounts on doing research that combine analysis with description. The contributors have been drawn from the disciplines of...

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Social Control and Education (RLE Edu L)

By Brian Davies

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Social control is a central sociological concept which has generated many influential ‘models’ of man in society. This book examines these major models, and examines the rise of compulsory schooling in Britain and the USA and shows us which aspects of education and social control have been...

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Classroom Control (RLE Edu L)

By Martyn Denscombe

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

Survival as a school teacher depends on an ability to achieve classroom control. In the years since this book was first published little has changed in this respect. Classroom control continues to lie at the heart of competent teaching. Teachers know it, pupils know it. They know it implicitly...

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Community, Hierarchy and Open Education (RLE Edu L)

By Gary Easthope

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

The book describes the English school, especially the secondary school, as a hierarchical community in which the head-teacher (principal) is an autocratic ruler. After explaining how that particular organisation of the school developed historically from the market situation faced by the English...

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The Social Context of the School (RLE Edu L)

By John Eggleston

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

In their appearance, schools often seem to be physically separated from their surroundings, cut off from the neighbouring houses and streets by high walls, by playgrounds or playing fields. Within the school, another world seems to exist, with a life of its own – its own routine, dress, rules and...

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

Edited by John Eggleston

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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Class, Culture and Education (RLE Edu L)

By Harold Entwistle

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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Educability, Schools and Ideology (RLE Edu L)

Edited by MICHAEL Flude, JOHN AHIER

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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Education For A New Society (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

By Ernest Green, Harold Shearman

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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....

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Emotion and Delinquency (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

A Clinical Study of Five Hundred Criminals in the Making

By L Grimberg

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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...

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Education as a Social Factor (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

By Leonard Jacks

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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Education and the Working Class (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

By Brian Jackson, Dennis Marsden

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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Streaming (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

An Education System in Miniature

By Brian Jackson

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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Rationality, Education and the Social Organization of Knowledege (RLE Edu L)

Edited by Chris Jenks

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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Educational Differences (RLE Edu L)

By Arthur Jensen

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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...

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Cultures of Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access

By Mary Kalantzis, Bill Cope, Greg Noble, Scott Poynting

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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...

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Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

In Search of A Future

Edited by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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Towards Successful Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

Edited by Hugh Lauder, Cathy Wylie

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

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...

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Marxist Perspectives in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

By Maurice Levitas

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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...

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Class, Ideologies and Educational Futures

By D Livingstone

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This book provides a systematic and detailed analysis of class relations in advanced capitalist societies as a basis for understanding both class differences in educational practices and the relative effects of class and other social background factors on public attitudes toward education. Secondly...

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The Family, Education and Society (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

By Frank Musgrove

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In this provocative study the author challenges many contemporary assumptions about the modern family, the circumstances of home life which lead to academic success and the proper relationship between home and school. The modern family is not ‘in decline’; its history is a success story. It is...

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Classrooms Observed (RLE Edu L)

The Teacher's Perception and the Pupil's Peformance

By Roy Nash

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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...

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Schooling in Rural Societies (RLE Edu L)

By Roy Nash

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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...

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Paradigm and Ideology in Educational Research (RLE Edu L)

The Social Functions of the Intellectual

By Thomas Popkewitz

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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...

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Marx and Education in Russia and China (RLE Edu L)

By R Price

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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...

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Education (RLE Edu L)

Capitalist and Socialist

By Beryl Pring

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This book argues that politics, in the sense of the government of our social structure, holds the key to the resolution of educational problems in the early twentieth century; that the teacher will only be relieved of his or her sense of frustration through government and ultimately socialist...

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Education and Poverty (RLE Edu L)

By Philip Robinson

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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...

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Marxism and Education (RLE Edu L)

A Study of Phenomenological and Marxist Approaches to Education

By Madan Sarup

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This book introduces the student to the various phenomenological and humanistic Marxist perspectives as they are being applied to education and provides an account of the strengths and weaknesses of these perspectives, drawing on a variety of disciplines in order to explain the controversies...

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Marxism/Structuralism/Education (RLE Edu L)

Theoretical Developments in the Sociology of Education

By Madan Sarup

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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...

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Maladjusted Schooling (RLE Edu L)

By John Schostak

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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...

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English Education and the Radicals (RLE Edu L)

1780-1850

By Harold Silver

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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...

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Education and the Social Condition (RLE Edu L)

By Harold Silver

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This 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...

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Language, Schools and Classrooms (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)

By Michael Stubbs

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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...

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School Organisation (RLE Edu L)

A Sociological Perspective

By William Tyler

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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...

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The Sociology of Educational Inequality (RLE Edu L)

By William Tyler

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What is the most significant factor for explaining why some individuals are more successful than others – genetic inheritance, privileged background or luck? Although conventional approaches stress the prime importance of one of these, Tyler argues that such theories fail to deal adequately with...

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Doing Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L)

Edited by Geoffrey Walford

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

This 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...

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Life in Public Schools (RLE Edu L)

By Geoffrey Walford

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Britain’s public (that is, its major independent) schools have a conspicuous role in the country’s social system, and as a result are the subject of a long-standing political debate. The discussion is generally founded on a stereotyped image of what these school may have been like in the 1950s –...

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Privatization and Privilege in Education (RLE Edu L)

By Geoffrey Walford

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Can privilege be bought? Arguments have raged over whether private education in the UK is ‘the cement in the wall’ dividing British society, or whether parental choice is, as has also been argued ‘a key component of a free society’. The author here describes the traditional private sector schools,...

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Divided School

By Peter Woods

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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...

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Pupil Strategies (RLE Edu L)

Explorations in the Sociology of the School

Edited by Peter Woods

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What do pupils actually do in school? There are remarkably few studies that take the pupils’ perspective and reconstruct experience from their point of view within the context of their own cultures and careers. This volume brings together a number of research studies on various aspects of how...

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Teacher Strategies (RLE Edu L)

Explorations in the Sociology of the School

Edited by Peter Woods

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This book takes as its focus the key interactionist concept of ‘strategy’, a concept fundamental to many current concerns in the sociology of the school, including the understanding of the links between society and the individual, a more accurate description of certain areas of school life and...

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Sociology and the School (RLE Edu L)

By Peter Woods

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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...

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