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  • Contemporary Education Policy

    Edited by John Ahier, Michael Flude ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1983, Contemporary Education Policy examines the British education system during a period of contraction due to severe financial pressure and a falling school population. It analyses how unemployment, demographic changes, and political upheaval transformed this already complex educational landscape and discusses the political, economic, and social effects of these changes. The ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Educability, Schools and Ideology (RLE Edu L)

    Edited by MICHAEL Flude, JOHN AHIER ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    The sociology of education has been at the forefront of new developments in sociological theory. This book examines and criticizes a number of these new developments and discusses some empirical work on issues of current concern. One of the few books that integrates radical and critical sociology into the field of education, it deals with the resultant difficulties. The topics covered include ... Read more

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  • On Critical Pedagogy

    Series series Critical Pedagogy Today
    For thirty years Henry Giroux has been theorizing pedagogy as a political, moral and cultural practice, drawing upon critical discourses that extend from John Dewey and Zygmunt Bauman to Paulo Freire. This impassioned book opens by discussing the crucial role of pedagogy in schools before extending the notion to the educational force of the wider culture.Giroux focuses on five crucial elements ... Read more

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  • Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan

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    by Susan Rose ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    First published in 1988, this work was the product of extensive fieldwork in two evangelical communities. This in-depth ethnographic study focuses on the meaning systems, organizational structures and the daily lives of the people Susan D. Rose encountered.The study is centred around Christian schooling as a method of socialisation. Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the development of the ... Read more

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    Latino men and boys in the United States are confronted with a wide variety of hardships that are not easily explained or understood. They are populating prisons, dropping out of high school, and are becoming overrepresented in the service industry at alarming degrees. Young Latino men, especially, have among the lowest wages earned in the country, a rapidly growing rate of HIV/AIDS, and one of ... Read more

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  • A Sociology of Education for Africa

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    This book, first published in 1980, provides a summary of the major research findings of previous studies of the sociology of education in Sub-Saharan Africa within an original and stimulating general framework whilst also devoting space to their own research findings. The major themes of the book are education and social inequality, the sociology of the school, the teacher and the curriculum, and ... Read more

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    This text, intended for undergraduates on various education and sport related degree courses, covers the key, current issues in the field of sociology of sport and physical education. The first section of the text covers the importance of sport in culture, its theoretical background, and methodological issues in research. The main body of the text then discusses issues including the sporting body, ... Read more

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