The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Sociology of Education Readers in Education 1st Edition by Stephen Ball ISBN 0415327768 978-0415327763

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ISBN 10:  0415327768

ISBN 13:  978-0415327763

Author: Stephen Ball 

The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Sociology of Education brings together a carefully selected collection of articles and book chapters to reflect enduring trends in the field of Sociology of Education. Focusing on the major issues confronting education today, this lively and informative Reader provides broad coverage of the field and includes sections on crucial topics such as:

• social class
• globalization
• gender
• curriculum
• social inequality and social justice
• students and classrooms.

With an emphasis on contemporary pieces that deal with issues relevant to the immediate real world, this book represents the research and views of some of the most respected authors in the field today. Stephen Ball offers a collection that is theoretically informed, internationally applicable, and universally accessible.

In a specially written introduction, Ball provides a much-needed context to the current educational climate. Students of sociology and sociology of education will find this Reader an important route map to further reading and understanding.

Table of contents: 

1. The Forms of Capital — Pierre Bourdieu

2. ‘Finding or Losing Yourself’? Working-Class Relationships to Education — Diane Reay

3. Education, Globalisation and Economic Development — Phillip Brown & Hugh Lauder

4. Globalisation, the Learning Society and Comparative Education — Peter Jarvis

5. The Social Construction of Youthful Masculinities — Mike O’Donnell & Sue Sharpe

6. The Discursive Production of Male/Female Dualism in School Settings — Bronwyn Davies

7. Performatives and Fabrications in the Education Economy — Stephen J. Ball

8. The Capitalist State and Public Policy Formation: Framework for a Political Sociology of Educational Policy Making — Carlos Alberto Torres

9. Cultural Politics and the Text — Michael W. Apple

10. Social Class and Pedagogic Practice — Basil Bernstein

11. The Reconstruction of Primary Teachers’ Identities — Peter Woods & Bob Jeffrey

12. Teachers Doing Their Economic Work — John Smyth & Geoff Shacklock

13. Schools, Families and Academically Able Students: Contrasting Modes of Involvement in Secondary Education — Sally Power, Geoff Whitty, Tony Edwards & Val Wigfall

14. Towards a Sociology of Learning in Primary Schools — Andrew Pollard

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