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Education
Culture, Economy, and Society

Edited by A. H. Halsey, Hugh Lauder, Phillip Brown, and Amy Stuart Wells

Price: £29.99 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-878187-5
Publication date: 17 April 1997
842 pages, line figures, tables, 234x156 mm

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'Halsey and his co-editors describe this book as a third attempt to review the scope and trends of sociological writing on education. The book is divided into six parts, on themes including Education, the Global Economy and the Labour Market; Politics, Markets and School Effectiveness; and Knowledge, Curriculum and Cultural Politics. In short, there isn't much that is not covered./L.A. Duhs The University of Queensland/ International Journal of Social Economics 25,10 1998.' -
'excellent overview of the sociology of education.' - Norman Gabriel, University of Abertay, Dundee
'comrephensive and accessible, reasonably priced.' - C.J. Pole, University of Warwick
'ideal book for students to use as a reader.' - P.J. Littleford, De Montfort University
'It is a first class anthology which seeks to emphasise the role of sociology of education as an instrument of enlightenment.' - Aslib Book Guide
'The main strength lies in the coverage of key issues, students will be able to use this text as their baisc reader for the course. It has a well-balanced mixture of older and more recent sources which means it will not date too quickly. I shall be strongly recommending it for purchase.' - Lyn Bryant, University of Plymouth

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A H Halsey is one of the most respected figures in this field, known internationally, and a media name in his own right. He has graduate students all over the world to whom he will recommend this volume. Previous books of his include Change in British Society (OPUS), now in its fourth edition.
Amy Stuart Wells is an important figure on the US scene.
The best recent papers have been picked by the editors; the significant theorists and scholars in the field are included. 9 of the papers were commissioned specially for this volume. (Ashton and Sung; Dale; Green; Whitty; Grace; Torrance; Mortimore; Weiner, Arnot, and David; and Halsey and Young.)

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 major theoretical approaches within the sociology of education, assesses their contribution to an adequate understanding of the changing educational context, and sets out the key issues and areas for future research. The 52 papers in this wide-ranging thematic reader bring together the most powerful work in education into an international dialogue which is sure to become a classic text.

Readership: Students of sociology of education, education policy, education; the general reader interested in educational policy and theory.

Contents

1. Introduction: The Social Transformation of Education and Society , P. Brown, A. H. Halsey, H. Lauder, and A. S. Wells

Part One: Education, Culture, and Society

2. The Forms of Capital , Pierre Bourdieu

3. Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible , Basil Bernstein

4. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital , James S. Coleman

5. The Post-Modern Condition , Krishan Kumar

6. Crossing the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism , Henry Giroux

7. Having an Postmodernist Turn or Postmodernist Angst: A Disorder Experienced by an Author Who is Not Yet Dead or Even Close to It , Jane Kenway

8. Feminisms and Education Gaby Weiner

Part Two: Education, Global Economy, and Labour Market

9. Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer , Robert B. Reich

10. Education, Globalization, and Economic Development , Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder

11. The New Knowledge Work , Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio

12. Education, Skill Formation, and Economic Development: The Singaporean Approach , David N. Ashton and Johnny Sung

13. Human Capital Concepts , Maureen Woodhall

14. The Gendering of Skill and Vocationalism in Twentieth-Century Australian Education , Jill Blackmore

15. Can Education Do It Alone? , Henry M. Levin and Carolyn Kelley

Part Three: The State and the Restructuring of Teachers' Work

16. Education and the Role of the State: Devolution and Control Post-Picot , John Codd, Liz Gordon, and Richard Harker

17. The Global Economy, the State, and the Politics of Education , Roger Dale

18. Educational Achievement in Centralized and Decentralized Systems , Andy Green

19. On the Changing Relationships Between the State, Civil Society, and Changing Notions of Teacher Professionalism , Geoffrey Whitty

20. Changing Notions of Educational Management and Leadership , Gerald Grace

21. Assessment, Accountability, and Standards Using Assessment to Control the Reform of Schooling , Harry Torrance

22. Restructuring Schools for Student Success , Linda Darling-Hammond

23. Restructuring Restructuring: Postmodernity and the Prospects for Educational Change , Andy Hargreaves

Part Four: Politics, Markets, and School Effectiveness

24. Politics, Markets, and the Organization of Schools , John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe

25. Education, Democracy, and the Economy , Hugh Lauder

26. The `Third Wave': Education and the Ideology of Parentocracy , Phillip Brown

27. Circuits of Schooling: A Sociological Exploration of Parental Choice of School in Social Class Contexts , Stephen J. Ball, Richard Bowe, and Sharon Gewirtz

28. African-American Students' View of School Choice , Amy Stuart Wells

29. Choice, Competition, and Segregation: An Empirical Analysis of A New Zealand Secondary School Market, 1990-93 , Sietske Waslander and Martin Thrupp

30. [Ap]parent Involvement: Reflections on Parents, Power, and Urban Public Schools , Michelle Fine

31. Can Effective Schools Compensate for Society? , Peter Mortimore

Part Five: Knowledge, Curriculum, and Cultural Politics

32. Introduction: Our Virtue , Allan Bloom

33. The New Cultural Politics of Difference , Cornel West

34. On Race and Voice: Challenges for Liberal Education in the 1990s , Chandra Talpade Mohanty

35. The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children , Lisa D. Delpit

36. What Postmodernists Forget: Cultural Capital and Official Knowledge , Michael W. Apple

37. The Big Picture: Masculinities in Recent World History , R. W. Connell

38. Is the Future Female? Female Success, Male Disadvantage, and Changing Gender Patterns in Education , Gaby Weiner, Madeleine Arnot, and Miriam David

Part Six: Meritocracy and Social Exclusion

39. Trends in Access and Equity in Higher Education: Britain in International Perspective , A. H. Halsey

40. Education and Occupational Attainments: The Impact of Ethnic Origins , Anthony Heath and Dorren McMahon

41. Problems of `Meritocracy' , John Goldthorpe

42. Equalization and Improvement: Some Effects of Comprehensive Reorganization in Scotland , Andrew McPherson and J. Douglas Willms

43. Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital , Annette Lareau

44. The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools , Amy Stuart Wells and Irene Serna

45. Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: Some Observations on Recent Trends in Education, Employment, and the Labour Market , Phillip Brown

46. Studying Inner-City Social Dislocations: The Challenge of Public Agenda Research , William Julius Wilson

47. Racial Stratification and Education in the United States: Why Inequality Persists , John U. Ogbu

48. The Bell Curve Wars , Steven Fraser

49. The Family and Social Justice , A. H. Halsey and Michael Young

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by A. H. Halsey, Emeritus Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford,
Hugh Lauder, School of Education, University of Bath,
Phillip Brown, University of Kent at Canterbury, and
Amy Stuart Wells, University of California

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