Contemporary debates in the sociology of education / edited by Rachel Brooks, Mark McCormack, Kalwant Bhopal.
Material type: TextPublisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan 2015Description: xiv, 238 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781137502278 (pbk.) :
- 1137502274 (paperback)
- 9781137502278 (paperback)
- 306.43 BRO
- LC191
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Originally published: 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Contemporary debastes in the sociology of educaiton: an introduction. Rachel Brooks, Mark McCormack and Kalwant Bhopal -- 2.Globalisation and sociology of education policy: the case of PISA. Bob Lingard and Sam Sellar -- 3.Education policy, human rights, citizenship and cohesion. Audrey Osler -- 4.School type and inequality. Rita Nikolai and Anne West -- 5.We know what they earn, but what do they learn? A critique of lifelong learning through the lens of workplace learning at the bottom of the service secotr. Steven Roberts -- 6.In a class of their own: how working-class students experience university. Wolfgang Lehmann -- 7.Examining the (Em) bodied boundaries of high school locker rooms. Michael Kehler and Michael Atkinson -- 8.Adolescent and disable or adolescent disabled? Education and the constructio of gendered identities among adolescents with intellectual disability. Kagendo Mutua and Sandra Cooley Ichols -- 9. It\'s how you look or what you like: gender harassment as school and its asssociation with student adjustment. Elisabeth Morgan ... 10.What is so liberal about neo-liberalism? Schooling, law and limitation of race-neutral reforms. Zeus Leonardo and Hoang Tran -- 11.Fear in and about education. Carolyn Jackson -- 12.Choosing subjects: sociological approaches to women\'s subject choices. Heather Mendick -- 13.Towards a sociology of education and technology. Keri Facer and Neil Selwyn.
Some of the most prominent sociologists working in education today have collaborated to address a wide range of empirical and theoretical issues. Adopting an international perspective, they foreground cutting-edge research that highlights both the diversity and complexity of understanding education in society.