Sociology of Education Paperbacks

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21. Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times

    Researching Educational Inequalities

    Edited by Heidi Mirza, Cynthia Joseph

    This book is a compelling collection of essays on the intersection of race, gender and class in education written by leading black and postcolonial feminists of colour from Asia, Africa and the Caribbean living in Britain, America, Canada, and Australia. It addresses controversial issues such as...

    Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
22. World Yearbook of Education 2005

    Globalization and Nationalism in Education

    Edited by David Coulby, Evie Zambeta

    Series: World Yearbook of Education

    This volume deals with two major and apparently opposing forces within education and society: globalization and nationalism. Globalization is often considered in economic terms - of continued growth of international trade and a concentration of wealth in corporate hands - yet it also encompasses...

    Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
23. Feminist Critique of Education

    Fifteen Years of Gender Development

    Edited by Christine Skelton, Becky Francis

    Series: Education Heritage

    This book provides a valuable route map to the development of thinking in gender and education over the last fifteen years. It includes over thirty-five seminal articles from the journal Gender and Education, written by many of the leading authors in the field from the UK, the USA, Australia and...

    Published March 25th 2012 by Routledge
24. World Yearbook of Education 2010

    Education and the Arab 'World': Political Projects, Struggles, and Geometries of Power

    Edited by Andre Elias Mazawi, Ronald Sultana

    Series: World Yearbook of Education

    The World Yearbook of Education 2010 volume, Education and the Arab 'World': Political Projects, Struggles, and Geometries of Power, strives to do justice to the complex processes and dynamics behind the world of Arab education. Western interest in all things ‘Arab’ has greatly increased over the...

    Published March 24th 2012 by Routledge
25. Cultural Exclusion in China

    State Education, Social Mobility and Cultural Difference

    By Lin Yi

    Series: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia

    Ethnic minorities form a very substantial proportion of the population of China, with over 100 million people in 55 formally designated minority groups inhabiting over 60% of the country’s land area. Poverty and economic inequality of minority groups are widely-recognised problems. However, as this...

    Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge
26. Knowledge, Pedagogy and Society

    International Perspectives on Basil Bernstein's Sociology of Education

    Edited by Daniel Frandji, Philippe Vitale

    Over the course of the late-twentieth century Basil Bernstein pioneered an original approach to educational phenomena, taking seriously questions regarding the transmission, distribution and transformation of knowledge as no other before had done. Arguing tirelessly for change, more than any other...

    Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
27. Civic Education for Diverse Citizens in Global Times

    Rethinking Theory and Practice

    Edited by Beth C. Rubin, James M. Giarelli

    Series: Rutgers Invitational Symposium on Education Series

    This book explores four interrelated themes: rethinking civic education in light of the diversity of U.S. society; re-examining these notions in an increasingly interconnected global context; re-considering the ways that civic education is researched and practiced; and taking stock of where we are...

    Published March 1st 2012 by Routledge
28. Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education

    Edited by Caragh Brosnan, Bryan S. Turner

    The Handbook of the Sociology of Medical Education provides a contemporary introduction to this classic area of sociology by examining the social origin and implications of the epistemological, organizational and demographic challenges facing medical education in the twenty-first century....

    Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
29. Education and Neoliberal Globalization

    By Carlos Alberto Torres

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This volume by noted critical education scholar Carlos Alberto Torres takes up the question of how structural changes in schooling and the growing impacts of neoliberalism and globalization affect social change, national development, and democratic educational systems throughout the world. The...

    Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
30. The Gates Foundation and the Future of US “Public” Schools

    Edited by Philip E. Kovacs

    Series: Routledge Studies in Education and Neoliberalism

    There has been much public praise for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s efforts to reform public education. However, few scholars have engaged substantively and critically with the organization’s work. While the Gates Foundation is the single largest supporter by far of "choice" initiatives...

    Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge