The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education / Edition 1

by Michael W. Apple, Stephen J. Ball, Luis Armando Gandin

Overview

This collection brings together many of the world’s leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. The thirty-seven newly commissioned chapters draw upon theory and research to provide new accounts of contemporary educational processes, global trends, and changing and enduring forms of social conflict and social inequality.

The research, conducted by leading international scholars in the field, indicates that two complexly interrelated agendas are discernible in the heat and noise of educational change over the past twenty-five years. The first rests on a clear articulation by the state of its requirements of education. The second promotes at least the appearance of greater autonomy on the part of educational institutions in the delivery of those requirements. The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education examines the ways in which the sociology of education has responded to these two political agendas, addressing a range of issues which cover three key areas:

• perspectives and theories
• social processes and practices
• inequalities and resistances.

The book strongly communicates the vibrancy and diversity of the sociology of education and the nature of ‘sociological work’ in this field. It will be a primary resource for teachers, as well as a title of major interest to practising sociologists of education.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415486637
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/08/2009
Series:	Routledge International Handbooks of Education
Pages:	446
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael W. Apple is John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Stephen J. Ball is Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Luis Armando Gandin is Professor of Sociology of Education at the School of Education, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Table of Contents

Part One: Perspectives and Theories 1. ‘Spatializing’ the Sociology of Education 2. Foucault and Education 3. Education and Critical Race Theory 4. The Ethics of National Hospitality and Globally Mobile Researchers 5. Towards a Sociology of the Global Teacher 6. Codes, Pedagogy and Knowledge 7. Social Democracy, Complexity and Education 8. The ‘New’ Connectivities of Digital Education 9. A Cheese-slicer by any Other Name? Shredding the Sociology of Inclusion 10. The Sociology of Mothering 11. Rationalisation, Disenchantment and Re-enchantment 12. Recognizing the Subjects of Education Part Two: Social Processes and Practices 13. Doing the Work of God 14. New States, New Governance and New Education Policy 15. Towards a Sociology of Pedagogies 16. Families, Values, and Class Relations 17. Popular Culture and the Sociology of Education 18. Schooling the Body in a Performative Culture 19. Tracking and Inequality 20. Economic Globalisation, Skill Formation and the Consequences for Higher Education 21. Education and the Right to the City 22. A Revisited Theme – Middle Classes and the School 23. Governing without Governing 24. The University in the Twenty-First Century Part Three: Inequalities and Resistances 25. The Indian Middle Classes and Educational Advantage 26. Equality and Social Justice 27. Educational Organizations and Gender in Times of Uncertainty 28. Bringing Bourdieu to ‘Widening Participation’ Policies in Higher Education 29. The Sociology of Elite Education 30. The Dialogic Sociology of the Learning Communities 31. The Democratization of Governance in the Citizen School Project 32. Syncretism and Hybridity 33. Dilemmas of Race-Rememory Buried Alive 34. Momentum and Melancholia 35. Sociology, Social Class and Education 36. Interfaces Between the Sociology of Education and the Studies about Youth in Brazil 37. Social Class and Schooling