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Education Culture, Economy, and Society

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ISBN-10: 0198781873

ISBN-13: 9780198781875

Edition: 1997

Authors: A. H. Halsey, Hugh Lauder, Phillip Brown, Amy Stuart Wells

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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…    
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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/8/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 848
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 1.61" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

Amy Stuart Wellsis Professor of Sociology and Education,Teachers' College, Columbia University.Jennifer Jellison Holmeis Assistant Professor of Educational Policy, University of Texas, Austin.Anita Tijerina Revillais Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.Awo Korantemaa Atandais Survey Specialist, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

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