Pupil Strategies Rle Edu L

Author : Peter Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136462993

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Pupil Strategies (RLE Edu L) by Peter Woods Pdf

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 pupils cope with schools. The theoretical papers consider amongst other issues a developmental model of the growth of pupil strategies based on primary and secondary socialisation; a discussion of ‘interactionist empiricism’ which argues for co-ordinated research between micro and macro perspectives and an extended overview of the general sociological background of work on teacher and pupil strategies. The empirical articles consider a number of themes ranging from strategies employed in answering teacher questions to the power and influence of the pupil peer group in the development of attitudes and behaviour.

Author : Peter Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:794903759

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Pupil Strategies (RLE Edu L). by Peter Woods Pdf

Author : Peter Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136462788

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Teacher Strategies (RLE Edu L) by Peter Woods Pdf

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 implications for the practice of teaching. ‘Strategy’ bears on all these issues. It concerns both goals, and ways of achieving them and short-term, immediate aims as well as long-term ones. The essays in this book share a common concern with teacher strategies, emphasizing the discovery of intentions and motives, alternative definitions of situations and the hidden rules that guide our behaviour. Amongst the areas investigated are the influence of factors outside the school in determining the role of the teacher, and the nature and influence of teacher commitment. The implications for practical action and policy making are stressed throughout, and by recognising and exploring the constraints and influences that operate on teachers, this work constructs a realistic appraisal of the teaching situation.

Author : Martyn Denscombe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136470554

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Classroom Control (RLE Edu L) by Martyn Denscombe Pdf

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 because they experience it as a normal part of their daily lives in schools. But, in this book, the author stands back from our everyday knowledge about how things work in classrooms to ask what control actually consists of. What is it? How is it recognized? How is it challenged by pupils? How is done by teachers? How is it negotiated? Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in three large secondary schools in England Martyn Denscombe explores the meaning of classroom control. He looks at the influence of teacher training and the role of school organization in establishing expectations about control, and then shows how control is played out through the interaction of teachers and pupils in class. His analysis travels well across the many contexts in which teaching occurs and provides an illuminating insight into the work of teaching and the nature of classroom life. His evidence is drawn from ethnographic fieldwork in three schools in England, and secondary sources covering the phenomenon of classroom control in the UK, USA and Australia.

Author : Peter Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136465024

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Sociology and the School (RLE Edu L) by Peter Woods Pdf

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 as one of the leading approaches in education. It has generated illuminating research studies which, by being firmly based in the real world of teaching and dealing with the fine-grained details of school life, have helped to break down the barriers between teacher and researcher. This volume presents the results of this valuable work, within a coherent theoretical framework, by focusing on the major interactionist concepts of situation, perspectives, cultures, strategies, negotiation and careers. By bringing them together in this way, the author demonstrates their collective potential for the deeper understanding of school life and the possibilities for sociological theory. His book therefore offers both a summary of and a reflection on achievement in the area of interactionism as it relates to schools.

Author : John F Schostak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136465161

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Maladjusted Schooling (RLE Edu L) by John F Schostak Pdf

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 organisational demands. School organisation is based upon a coercive theory of social control which is intolerant of expressions of individuality by teachers and pupils. Needs for individuality may be mistaken for deviance, and deviance is at least in part produced by, or exacerbated by, school organisation. The author maintains that schooling is therefore largely maladjusted to the needs of individuals.

Author : Robert G Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136459986

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The Research Process in Educational Settings (RLE Edu L) by Robert G Burgess Pdf

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 sociology and educational studies and have all conducted ethnographic work or case studies in a variety of educational settings.

Author : William Tyler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136463839

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School Organisation (RLE Edu L) by William Tyler Pdf

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 schools as institutions? At the time this book was first published sociological analysis had neglected to consider schools as organisational entities, preferring to see them as either the sites for negotiated encounters between teachers and pupils or else as agencies of class reproduction. The author redresses this imbalance and by relating the various literatures on the school to the constitutive patterns of its internal organisation he demonstrates the need for a more intensive sociological study of this embattled institution.

Author : Mary Kalantzis,Bill Cope,Greg Noble,Scott Poynting
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136468315

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Cultures of Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education) by Mary Kalantzis,Bill Cope,Greg Noble,Scott Poynting Pdf

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 attempt to meet the educational needs of its students. Set in the context of a general historical background to the development of multicultural education in Australia, a theoretical framework is developed with which to analyze the move from the traditional curriculum of cultural assimilation to the progressivist curriculum of cultural pluralism. The book analyzes the limitations of the progressivist model of multicultural education and suggests a new ‘post-progressivist’ model, in evidence already in an incipient and as yet tentative ‘self-corrective’ trend in the case-study schools.

Author : Hugh Lauder,Cathy Wylie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136470004

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Towards Successful Schooling (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education) by Hugh Lauder,Cathy Wylie Pdf

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 provides some indication of how policies of decentralization in education might be used to develop egalitarian and democratic educational policies. In recent years there have been major changes to educational systems in the Western world. Often these changes have been justified by reference to successful educational practices in other countries. However, it is not always possible simply to abstract educational practices from one context and apply them in another successfully. Moreover claims that policies in one country are more successful than those in another have to be treated cautiously: there are always problems in making valid comparisons between the educational performances of different countries. It is important, therefore, that critical and comparative studies are made of educational systems which take full account of the contexts in which they are embedded.

Author : Len Barton,Stephen A Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136471117

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Social Crisis and Educational Research (RLE Edu L) by Len Barton,Stephen A Walker Pdf

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 the crisis upon school processes and upon the relationship between life in school and in the wider community, an investigation of the responses being made by pupils, teachers and educationalists to the day-to-day manifestations of the crisis and a consideration of how the current crisis is giving a particular poignancy to issues to do with the theories and methods employed in our study and interpretation of contemporary educational processes.

Author : Len Barton,Roland Meighan,Stephen A Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136471186

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Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum (RLE Edu L) by Len Barton,Roland Meighan,Stephen A Walker Pdf

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 sensitivity in the sociology of education. A sensitivity towards how school systems are created, maintained and made to function; towards developing a more refined, critical and constructive awareness of the reliability and validity of descriptions, analyses and explanations offered in this field of study; and a sensitivity towards the ways in which changes take place within the education system and how the insights and realisations generated in the discipline might be used to control such occurrences.

Author : Maurice Levitas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136468179

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Marxist Perspectives in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education) by Maurice Levitas Pdf

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 this analysis the author: defines key areas in the sociology of education gives access to important concepts of Marx and Engels strengthens sociological starting points by adding a Marxist element discriminates between radically different directions in education maps the main features of long-term working class goals This thoroughgoing Marxist critique of widely prevalent notions in the sociology of education provides a compass by which place and direction in this area of education may be found by students, teachers and parents.

Author : David H Hargreaves,Stephen Hester,Frank J Mellor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136457326

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Disaffection From School (RLE Edu M) by David H Hargreaves,Stephen Hester,Frank J Mellor Pdf

A large number of pupils are, or are liable to become, disaffected with their schooling. In this comprehensive account of the problem, Ken Reid suggests that school can and should do much more to prevent and overcome disaffected behaviour, as manifested by such factors as absenteeism, disruption and underachievement. The book covers disruptive behaviour in its broader context and examines the search for an explanation within schools themselves. Formal and multidisciplinary approaches to the problem are also fully treated. The author has drawn on his considerable school and research experience and the book is well illustrated with examples and case histories. Ken Reid argues that questions about attitudes and approaches in teaching and in pastoral care provoke a continued challenge, and stresses that if such questions are not faced squarely the long-germ prognosis for secondary education in Britain may be bleak. Teachers in training and all those involved in the education and welfare of difficult or disadvantaged children, especially teachers, heads and social workers, will find Disaffection from School both challenging in its analysis and helpful in its suggestions.

Author : Len Barton,Stephen A Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136450679

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Schools, Teachers and Teaching (RLE Edu N) by Len Barton,Stephen A Walker Pdf

This volume considers how various sociological approaches to the exploration of the conditions of teachers’ might be co-ordinated so as to produce a more penetrating and reliable understanding of the main dimensions of teachers’ work. Three dimensions are selected for special attention: historical, institutional and interactional contexts in which teachers operate. In different way the papers in this collection explore the contribution such an investigation of these contexts can make to our understanding of wider educational concerns.