Sociology And The School Rle Edu L

Author : Peter Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 Eggleston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136468599

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Contemporary Research in the Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L) by John Eggleston Pdf

The subject matter of this book – what happens in schools, the effects of curriculum change, the reasons why some children are successful and others are not – explains just why the sociology of education is one of the most important areas to achieve political importance. There are five sections to the book covering: Educational Achievement; Educational Provision; The Organization of the School; Roles in the School and Values and Learning. The editor discusses the implications of the material presented (much of which was available for the first time when this book was originally published).

Author : Peter Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,8 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 : Peter Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0415615178

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Sociology and the School by Peter Woods Pdf

Author : Hugh Lauder,Cathy Wylie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136469992

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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 : Brian Jackson,Dennis Marsden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136470134

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Education and the Working Class (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education) by Brian Jackson,Dennis Marsden Pdf

When first published this book had a significant influence on the campaign for comprehensive schools and it spoke to generations of working-class students who were either deterred by the class barriers erected by selective schools and elite universities, or, having broken through them to gain university entry, found themselves at sea. The authors admit at the end of the book they have raised and failed to answer many questions, and in spite of the disappearance of the majority of grammar schools, many of those questions still remain unanswered.

Author : Geoffrey Walford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136462085

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Doing Sociology of Education (RLE Edu L) by Geoffrey Walford Pdf

This collection of specially commissioned articles exposes the practical and personal influences on the process of doing sociology of education. All of the authors have been involved in conducting well know major research projects, and discuss here the pitfalls and problems, conflicts and compromises that went into doing their particular research. A particular feature of the book is that a wide variety of types of research in the sociology of education is covered. The range is from small-scale ethnographic case studies to large-scale postal questionnaire sample surveys and includes studies based on interviews, observation and questionnaires. There are examples of longitudinal work in case studies and in surveys. The collection also includes discussions of action research, the development and influence of theory, and the relationship between research and policy.

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 : Peter Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415505888

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Pupil Strategies 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 : MICHAEL Flude,JOHN AHIER
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136470417

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Educability, Schools and Ideology (RLE Edu L) by MICHAEL Flude,JOHN AHIER Pdf

The sociology of education has been at the forefront of new developments in sociological theory. This book examines and criticizes a number of these new developments and discusses some empirical work on issues of current concern. One of the few books that integrates radical and critical sociology into the field of education, it deals with the resultant difficulties. The topics covered include cultural deprivation, ideologies in education, classrooms, the teaching profession and the history of women’s education.

Author : Peter Woods
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Brian Jackson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : England, Northern
ISBN : 0415176395

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Working Class Community by Brian Jackson Pdf

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Author : William Tyler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136462221

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The Sociology of Educational Inequality (RLE Edu L) by William Tyler Pdf

What is the most significant factor for explaining why some individuals are more successful than others – genetic inheritance, privileged background or luck? Although conventional approaches stress the prime importance of one of these, Tyler argues that such theories fail to deal adequately with the complexity of educational inequality and suggests that Boudon’s model of opportunity and mobility would provide us with a more productive explanation. By applying this model to post-war British education he shows how we might effectively think our approaches to the ‘cycle of deprivation’, comprehensive reform and educational spending.

Author : Geoffrey Walford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136461941

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Life in Public Schools (RLE Edu L) by Geoffrey Walford Pdf

Britain’s public (that is, its major independent) schools have a conspicuous role in the country’s social system, and as a result are the subject of a long-standing political debate. The discussion is generally founded on a stereotyped image of what these school may have been like in the 1950s – this books shows how they were in the late 1980s. It is based on fieldwork in two major public boarding schools which the author conducted over an extended period, and draws on interviews, observation and documentary sources to establish a picture of what public school life is actually like for pupils and staff. Since the schools were predominantly male preserves, the major part of the book describes the social world and experiences of boys and school-masters. An important section of the book, however, discusses the introduction of girl pupils, the experiences of female teachers and the way schoolmasters’ wives tend to be drawn into their husbands’ work. Geoffrey Walford’s conclusions about life in public schools differ considerably from traditional expectations. At the same time he asks whether there really has been a ‘public school revolution’. His book makes an important contribution to our knowledge of public schools, to debates in the sociology of education and to the issues of abolishing or extending the independent sector.

Author : MICHAEL Flude,JOHN AHIER
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136470424

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Educability, Schools and Ideology (RLE Edu L) by MICHAEL Flude,JOHN AHIER Pdf

The sociology of education has been at the forefront of new developments in sociological theory. This book examines and criticizes a number of these new developments and discusses some empirical work on issues of current concern. One of the few books that integrates radical and critical sociology into the field of education, it deals with the resultant difficulties. The topics covered include cultural deprivation, ideologies in education, classrooms, the teaching profession and the history of women’s education.