Sociology of Education Paperbacks

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41. Policy Discourses, Gender, and Education

    Constructing Women's Status

    By Elizabeth J. Allan

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    Despite over thirty years of activism and legislation to eliminate discrimination, parity has yet to be achieved for women in academe. This book describes policy discourse analysis as a framework for considering how those involved in policy-making efforts may make use of discourses that...

    Published August 8th 2010 by Routledge
42. Spatial Theories of Education

    Policy and Geography Matters

    Edited by Kalervo N. Gulson, Colin Symes

    Series: Routledge Research in Education

    This collection of original work, within the sociology of education, draws on the 'spatial turn' in contemporary social theory. The premise of this book is that drawing on theories of space allows for a more sophisticated understanding of the competing rationalities underlying educational policy...

    Published March 17th 2010 by Routledge
43. Liberalism, Neoliberalism, Social Democracy

    Thin Communitarian Perspectives on Political Philosophy and Education

    By Mark Olssen

    Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

    The Credit Crunch of 2008 has exposed the fallacies of neoliberalism and its thesis of the self-regulating market, which has been ascendant in both economic theory and policy over the last 30 years. In moving beyond neoliberalism, social democratic arguments are once again coming to the fore;...

    Published March 17th 2010 by Routledge
44. The Evolution of Educational Thought

    Lectures on the formation and development of secondary education in France

    By Emile Durkheim

    Published November 15th 2009 by Routledge
45. Durkheim

    Essays on Morals and Education

    Edited by W.S.F Pickering

    Published November 15th 2009 by Routledge
46. Changing Identities in Higher Education

    Voicing Perspectives

    Edited by Ronald Barnett, Roberto Di Napoli

    Series: Key Issues in Higher Education

    In this timely and innovative book scholars from Europe, the UK, North America and Australia, explore their own sense of identity, reflecting both on their research and scholarly interests, and their work experiences. Taking the form of a debate, Changing Identities in Higher Education helps to...

    Published September 17th 2009 by Routledge
47. Learning from the Margins

    Young Women, Social Exclusion and Education

    Edited by Julie McLeod, Andrea C Allard

    This collection of ground-breaking international essays address the educational, social, work and biographical experiences of young women who are routinely constructed as ‘at risk’ and on the margins. Drawing on research from an international range of scholars, this book brings together important...

    Published September 6th 2009 by Routledge
48. Gender Education and Equality in a Global Context

    Conceptual Frameworks and Policy Perspectives

    Edited by Shailaja Fennell, Madeleine Arnot

    The Millennium Development Goals aim to achieve basic education for all by 2015. But can such global agendas address national and local gender inequalities and will they empower women through education? This thought-provoking book offers an opportunity to engage critically with existing and...

    Published June 28th 2009 by Routledge
49. Knowledge, Power and Educational Reform

    Applying the Sociology of Basil Bernstein

    Edited by Rob Moore, Madeleine Arnot, John Beck, Harry Daniels

    This book is made up of a selection of writings from an international team of scholars, highlighting the contribution made to the field of educational policy and educational policy research by Basil Bernstein's work on the sociology of pedagogy. These contributors explore, analyse and engage with...

    Published June 28th 2009 by Routledge
50. Towards a Theory of Educational Transmissions

    By Basil Bernstein

    Illustrating the effect of class relationships upon the institutionalizing of elaborate codes in the school, the papers in this volume each develop from the previous one and demonstrate the evolution of the concepts discussed....

    Published February 25th 2009 by Routledge