Education culture, economy, and society - Halsey, A. H.; Lander, Hugh.; Brown, Philip; Wells, Amy Stuart (Oxford Oxford University Press, 1997)
Table of Contents: List of Contributors. List of Figures. List of Tables. 1. The Transformation of Education and Society: An Introduction / P. Brown, et al -- Part One. Education, Culture, and Society: 2. The Forms of Capital / P. Bourdieu -- 3. Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible / B. Bernstein -- 4. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital / J. S. Coleman -- 5. The Post-Modern Condition / K. Kumar -- 6. Crossing the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism / H. Giroux -- 7. Having a Postmodernist Turn or Postmodernist Angst: A Disorder Experienced by an Author Who is Not Yet Dead or Even Close to It / J. Kenway -- 8. Feminisms and Education / G. Weiner -- Part Two. Education, The Global Economy, and The Labour Market: 9. Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer / R. B. Reich -- 10. Education, Globalization, and Economic Development / P. Brown and H. Lauder -- 11. The New Knowledge Work / S. Aronowitz and W. De Fazio -- 12. Education, Skill Formation, and Economic Development: The Singaporean Approach / D. N. Ashton and J. Sung -- 13. Human Capital Concepts / M. Woodhall -- 14. The Gendering of Skill and Vocationalism in Twentieth-Century Australian Education / J. Blackmore -- 15. Can Education Do It Alone? / H. M. Levin and C. Kelley -- Part Three. The State and the Restructuring of Teachers' Work: 16. Education and the Role of the State: Devolution and Control Post-Picot / J. Codd, L. Gordon, and R. Harker -- 17. The State and the Governance of Education: An Analysis of the Restructuring of the State-Education Relationship / R. Dale -- 18. Educational Achievement in Centralized and Decentralized Systems / A. Green -- 19. Marketization, the State, and the Re-Formation of the Teaching Profession / G. Whitty -- 20. Politics, Markets, and Democratic Schools: On the Transformation of School Leadership / G. Grace -- 21. Assessment, Accountability, and Standards: Using Assessment to Control the Reform of Schooling / H. Torrance -- 22. Restructuring Schools for Student Success / L. Darling-Hammond -- 23. Restructuring Restructuring: Postmodernity and the Prospects for Educational Change / A. Hargreaves -- Part Four. Politics, Markets, and School Effectiveness -- 24. Politics, Markets, and the Organization of Schools / J. E. Chubb and T. M. Moe: 25. Education, Democracy, and the Economy / H. Lauder -- 26. The 'Third Wave': Education and the Ideology of Parentocracy / P. Brown -- 27. Circuits of Schooling: A Sociological Exploration of Parental Choice of School in Social-Class Contexts / S. J. Ball, R. Bowe, and S. Gewirtz -- 28. African-American Students' View of School Choice / A. Stuart Wells -- 29. Choice, Competition, and Segregation: An Empirical Analysis of a New Zealand Secondary School Market, 1990-93 / S. Waslander and M. Thrupp -- 30. [Ap]parent Involvement: Reflections on Parents, Power, and Urban Public Schools / M. Fine -- 31. Can Effective Schools Compensate for Society? / P. Mortimore -- Part Five. Knowledge, Curriculum, and Cultural Politics: 32. Introduction: Our Virtue / A. Bloom -- 33. The New Cultural Politics of Difference / C. West -- 34. Multiculturalism and the Postmodern Critique: Toward a Pedagogy of Resistance and Transformation / P. McLaren -- 35. Nonsynchrony and Social Difference: An Alternative to Current Radical Accounts of Race and Schooling / C. McCarthy -- 36. On Race and Voice: Challenges for Liberal Education in the 1990s / C. Talpade Mohanty -- 37. Feminist Scholarship as a Vocation / P. J. Gumport -- 38. The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children / L. D. Delpit -- 39. What Postmodernists Forget: Cultural Capital and Official Knowledge / M. W. Apple -- 40. The Big Picture: Masculinities in Recent World History /R.W. Connell -- 41. Is the Future Female? Female Success, Male Disadvantage, and Chaging Gender Patterns in Education / G. Weiner, M. Arnot, and M. David -- Part Six. Meritocracry and Social Exclusion: 42. Trends in Access and Equity in Higher Education: Britain in International Perspective / A. H. Halsey -- 43. Education and Occupational Attainments: The Impact of Ethnic Origins / A. Heath and D. McMahon -- 44. Problems of 'Meritocracy' / J. H. Goldthorpe -- 45. Equalization and Improvement: Some Effects of Comprehensive Reorganization in Scotland / A. McPherson and J. Douglas Willms -- 46. Social-Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital / A. Lareau -- 47. The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools / A. Stuart Wells and I. Serna -- 48. Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: Some Observations on Recent Trends in Education, Employmnet, and the Labour Market / P. Brown -- 49. Studying Inner-City Social Dislocations: The Challenge of Public Agenda Research / W. J. Wilson -- 50. Racial Stratification and Education in the United States: Why Inequality Persists / J. U. Ogbu -- 51. Introduction to The Bell Curve Wars / S. Fraser -- 52. The Family and Social Justice / A. H. Halsey and M. Young -- Further Reading. Index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Education; Educational sociology