Education Culture Economy Society

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Education: Culture, Economy, and Society is a book for everyone concerned with the social study of education: students studying the sociology of education, foundations of education, educational policy, and other related courses. It aims to establish the social study of education at the centre stage of political and sociological debate about post-industrial societies. In examining major changes which have taken place in the late twentieth century, it gives students a comprehensive introduction to both the nature of these changes and to their interpretation in relation to long-standing debates within education, sociology, and cultural studies. The extensive editorial introduction outlines the major theoretical approaches within the sociology of education, assesses their contribution to an adequate understanding of the changing educational context, and sets out the key issues and areas for future research. The 52 papers in this wide-ranging thematic reader bring together the most powerful work in education into an international dialogue which is sure to become a classic text.

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• 1 Introduction: The Social Transformation of Education and Society
• Part 1 Education, Culture, and Society
• 2 The Forms of Capital
• 3 Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible
• 4 Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
• 5 The Post-Modern Condition
• 6 Crossing the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism
• 7 Having an Postmodernist Turn or Postmodernist Angst: A Disorder Experienced by an Author Who is Not Yet Dead or Even Close to It
• 8 Feminisms and Education
• Part 2 Education, Global Economy, and Labour Market
• 9 Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer
• 10 Education, Globalization, and Economic Development
• 11 The New Knowledge Work
• 12 Education, Skill Formation, and Economic Development: The Singaporean Approach
• 13 Human Capital Concepts
• 14 The Gendering of Skill and Vocationalism in Twentieth-Century Australian Education
• 15 Can Education Do It Alone?
• Part 3 The State and the Restructuring of Teachers' Work
• 16 Education and the Role of the State: Devolution and Control Post-Picot
• 17 The Global Economy, the State, and the Politics of Education
• 18 Educational Achievement in Centralized and Decentralized Systems
• 19 On the Changing Relationships Between the State, Civil Society, and Changing Notions of Teacher Professionalism
• 20 Changing Notions of Educational Management and Leadership
• 21 Assessment, Accountability, and Standards Using Assessment to Control the Reform of Schooling
• 22 Restructuring Schools for Student Success
• 23 Restructuring Restructuring: Postmodernity and the Prospects for Educational Change
• Part 4 Politics, Markets, and School Effectiveness
• 24 Politics, Markets, and the Organization of Schools
• 25 Education, Democracy, and the Economy
• 26 The `Third Wave': Education and the Ideology of Parentocracy
• 27 Circuits of Schooling: A Sociological Exploration of Parental Choice of School in Social Class Contexts
• 28 African-American Students' View of School Choice
• 29 Choice, Competition, and Segregation: An Empirical Analysis of A New Zealand Secondary School Market, 1990-93
• 30 [Ap]parent Involvement: Reflections on Parents, Power, and Urban Public Schools
• 31 Can Effective Schools Compensate for Society?
• Part 5 Knowledge, Curriculum, and Cultural Politics
• 32 Introduction: Our Virtue
• 33 The New Cultural Politics of Difference
• 34 On Race and Voice: Challenges for Liberal Education in the 1990s
• 35 The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children
• 36 What Postmodernists Forget: Cultural Capital and Official Knowledge
• 37 The Big Picture: Masculinities in Recent World History
• 38 Is the Future Female? Female Success, Male Disadvantage, and Changing Gender Patterns in Education
• Part 6 Meritocracy and Social Exclusion
• 39 Trends in Access and Equity in Higher Education: Britain in International Perspective
• 40 Education and Occupational Attainments: The Impact of Ethnic Origins
• 41 Problems of `Meritocracy'
• 42 Equalization and Improvement: Some Effects of Comprehensive Reorganization in Scotland
• 43 Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital
• 44 The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools
• 45 Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: Some Observations on Recent Trends in Education, Employment, and the Labour Market
• 46 Studying Inner-City Social Dislocations: The Challenge of Public Agenda Research
• 47 Racial Stratification and Education in the United States: Why Inequality Persists
• 48 The Bell Curve Wars
• 49 The Family and Social Justice

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