Culture and Learning
Access and Opportunity in the Classroom
Will be published approx. on 1. November 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
420 pages
978-1-59311-178-6 (ISBN)
Description
Twenty-seven academics from the UK, U.S., and New Zealand contribute 18 essays on the impact of social structure on educational learning, educational access, and opportunity and outcomes, in an effort to renew the debate concerning the sociology of school attainment.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Charlotte
United States
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59311-178-6 (9781593111786)
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Content
Foreword; Michael F.D.Young.
Preface.
Introduction; Mark Olssen.
Chapter 1. Human Learning in Social Context; Peter Jarvis.
Chapter 2. Bourdieu in the Classroom; Michael Grenfell.
Chapter 3. Beyond Reproduction Theory: A Multi-Level Explanation of Inequality/Difference in Education; Roy Nash.
Chapter 4. Can the Arbitrary and the Necessary Be Reconciled?: Scientific Realism and the School Curriculum; Roy Nash.
Chapter 5. Basil Bernstein: Social Divisions and Cultural Transmission; Michael Erben and Hilary Dickinson.
Chapter 6. Language, Discourse, Literacy: Stability, Territory, and Transformation; Paul Dowling.
Chapter 7. ICT in the Classroom: The Pedagogical Challenge of Respatialisation and Reregulation; Susan Robertson, Tim Shortis, Neil Todman, Peter John, and Roger Dale.
Chapter 8. Dilemmas in Designing Problems in Realistic School Mathematics: A Sociological Overview and Some Research Findings; Barry Cooper.
Chapter 9. System-Wide Reform: The Role of Professional Development for Instructional Improvement.
Richard Harker and John O'Neill.
Chapter 10. The Impact of School Composition: New Insights into an Enduring Problem; Martin Thrupp.
Chapter 11. Knowledge and the Curriculum in the Sociology of Education: Towards a Reconceputalization; Rob Moore and Michael Young.
Chapter 12. The Sociology of IQ: Enhancing Cognitive Skills; James R. Flynn.
Chapter 13. Ability, Selection, and Institutional Racism in Schools; David Gillborn.
Chapter 14. Race and the Politics of Educational Reform; Michael W. Apple.
Chapter 15. Poverty, Learning Opportunities, and the Social Construction of Collective Intelligence; Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder.
Chapter 16. Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Messenger: Discourses, Dialectics and Deficits; Keith Sullivan.
Chapter 17. Gender Differences in Educational Achievement: A Socio-Cultural Analysis; Patricia Murphy and Gabrielle Ivinson.
Chapter 18. Educational Trauma and At-Risk Students; Keith Sullivan.
About the Contributors.
Preface.
Introduction; Mark Olssen.
Chapter 1. Human Learning in Social Context; Peter Jarvis.
Chapter 2. Bourdieu in the Classroom; Michael Grenfell.
Chapter 3. Beyond Reproduction Theory: A Multi-Level Explanation of Inequality/Difference in Education; Roy Nash.
Chapter 4. Can the Arbitrary and the Necessary Be Reconciled?: Scientific Realism and the School Curriculum; Roy Nash.
Chapter 5. Basil Bernstein: Social Divisions and Cultural Transmission; Michael Erben and Hilary Dickinson.
Chapter 6. Language, Discourse, Literacy: Stability, Territory, and Transformation; Paul Dowling.
Chapter 7. ICT in the Classroom: The Pedagogical Challenge of Respatialisation and Reregulation; Susan Robertson, Tim Shortis, Neil Todman, Peter John, and Roger Dale.
Chapter 8. Dilemmas in Designing Problems in Realistic School Mathematics: A Sociological Overview and Some Research Findings; Barry Cooper.
Chapter 9. System-Wide Reform: The Role of Professional Development for Instructional Improvement.
Richard Harker and John O'Neill.
Chapter 10. The Impact of School Composition: New Insights into an Enduring Problem; Martin Thrupp.
Chapter 11. Knowledge and the Curriculum in the Sociology of Education: Towards a Reconceputalization; Rob Moore and Michael Young.
Chapter 12. The Sociology of IQ: Enhancing Cognitive Skills; James R. Flynn.
Chapter 13. Ability, Selection, and Institutional Racism in Schools; David Gillborn.
Chapter 14. Race and the Politics of Educational Reform; Michael W. Apple.
Chapter 15. Poverty, Learning Opportunities, and the Social Construction of Collective Intelligence; Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder.
Chapter 16. Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Messenger: Discourses, Dialectics and Deficits; Keith Sullivan.
Chapter 17. Gender Differences in Educational Achievement: A Socio-Cultural Analysis; Patricia Murphy and Gabrielle Ivinson.
Chapter 18. Educational Trauma and At-Risk Students; Keith Sullivan.
About the Contributors.