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Sociology of education : possibilities and practices / edited by Jennifer Allen.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Southbank, VIC. : Social Science Press, 2004Edition: Third editionDescription: xii, 452 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0170122107
  • 9780170122108
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.430994 22
LOC classification:
  • LC191 .S64 2004
Contents:
SECTION ONE: INTERPRETING EDUCATION THROUGH SOCIAL THEORY -- Ch. 1 Searching for hidden potatoes! : social research in education / Jennifer Allen - Ch. 2 A teacher's tool kit : an introduction to social theory / Peter Kell -- SECTION TWO: Historical context and education -- Ch. 3 Watching the clock : changes and continuities in schools and society / Malcolm Vick - Ch. 4 In and out of the classroom : teachers' work in a changing society / Malcolm Vick - Ch. 5 Reading the fine print : tracking social movements through curriculum analysis / Terence Lovat -- SECTION THREE: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE -- Ch. 6 Making people : socialisation and socialising agencies / Gary Partington - Ch. 7 Doing out maths : teaching and learning through a poststructuralist lens / Mary Klein -- SECTION FOUR: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EDUCATION -- Ch. 8 Which girls, which boys? : gender, feminism and educational reform / Julie McLeod - Ch. 9 Enabling Australia : responsive education and global movements of people / Michael Singh - Ch. 10 It's not a race : aboriginality and education / Deirdre Heitmeyer - Ch. 11 Which class do you teach? : education and the reproduction of class / John Germov - Ch.12 Is it easy being green? : sociology and the environment / Kim Walker - Ch. 13 Whose disability? : inclusion and exclusion and the outgoing struggle of identity and difference / Marily Kell --
SECTION FIVE: CULTURE AND SCHOOLING -- Ch. 14 "Reality TV"? : school students and popular culture / Pam Nilan - Ch. 15 Gunshots that were heard around the world : towards anti-violence pedagogies in schools / Lindsay Fitzclarence and Jane Kenway -- SECTION SIX: EDUCATIONAL POLICY AND SOCIOLOGY -- Ch. 16 Schooling that works? : new vocationalism, work and schooling in the 21st century / Peter Kell - Ch. 17 Wicked problems : politics and schools / Geoff Riordan - Ch. 18 From page to playground : educational policy and solving educational problems / Kim Walker -- SECTION SEVEN : SOCIAL CHANGE AND EDUCATION -- Ch. 19 What's in the next? : the social context of educational computing / Greg Preston - Ch. 20 Teachers' working knowledge : the value of lived experience / Julie Hinde McLeod.
Summary: This third edition continues to break new ground in presenting a problem-based format to examine conventional and new developments in the sociology of education and provides a thoughtful and challenging examination of the societal, cultural and historical context of education. Allen from University of Newcastle, NSW.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

SECTION ONE: INTERPRETING EDUCATION THROUGH SOCIAL THEORY -- Ch. 1 Searching for hidden potatoes! : social research in education / Jennifer Allen - Ch. 2 A teacher's tool kit : an introduction to social theory / Peter Kell -- SECTION TWO: Historical context and education -- Ch. 3 Watching the clock : changes and continuities in schools and society / Malcolm Vick - Ch. 4 In and out of the classroom : teachers' work in a changing society / Malcolm Vick - Ch. 5 Reading the fine print : tracking social movements through curriculum analysis / Terence Lovat -- SECTION THREE: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE -- Ch. 6 Making people : socialisation and socialising agencies / Gary Partington - Ch. 7 Doing out maths : teaching and learning through a poststructuralist lens / Mary Klein -- SECTION FOUR: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EDUCATION -- Ch. 8 Which girls, which boys? : gender, feminism and educational reform / Julie McLeod - Ch. 9 Enabling Australia : responsive education and global movements of people / Michael Singh - Ch. 10 It's not a race : aboriginality and education / Deirdre Heitmeyer - Ch. 11 Which class do you teach? : education and the reproduction of class / John Germov - Ch.12 Is it easy being green? : sociology and the environment / Kim Walker - Ch. 13 Whose disability? : inclusion and exclusion and the outgoing struggle of identity and difference / Marily Kell --

SECTION FIVE: CULTURE AND SCHOOLING -- Ch. 14 "Reality TV"? : school students and popular culture / Pam Nilan - Ch. 15 Gunshots that were heard around the world : towards anti-violence pedagogies in schools / Lindsay Fitzclarence and Jane Kenway -- SECTION SIX: EDUCATIONAL POLICY AND SOCIOLOGY -- Ch. 16 Schooling that works? : new vocationalism, work and schooling in the 21st century / Peter Kell - Ch. 17 Wicked problems : politics and schools / Geoff Riordan - Ch. 18 From page to playground : educational policy and solving educational problems / Kim Walker -- SECTION SEVEN : SOCIAL CHANGE AND EDUCATION -- Ch. 19 What's in the next? : the social context of educational computing / Greg Preston - Ch. 20 Teachers' working knowledge : the value of lived experience / Julie Hinde McLeod.

This third edition continues to break new ground in presenting a problem-based format to examine conventional and new developments in the sociology of education and provides a thoughtful and challenging examination of the societal, cultural and historical context of education. Allen from University of Newcastle, NSW.

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