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ISBN-13:
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Copyright Year:
1997

Imprint: OUP UK

Education

Culture, Economy, and Society

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

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.

Reviews

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

1. P. Brown, A. H. Halsey, H. Lauder, and A. S. Wells: Introduction: The Social Transformation of Education and Society
Part One: Education, Culture, and Society
2. Pierre Bourdieu: The Forms of Capital
3. Basil Bernstein: Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible
4. James S. Coleman: Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
5. Krishan Kumar: The Post-Modern Condition
6. Henry Giroux: Crossing the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism
7. Jane Kenway: Having an Postmodernist Turn or Postmodernist Angst: A Disorder Experienced by an Author Who is Not Yet Dead or Even Close to It
8. Feminisms and Education Gaby Weiner
Part Two: Education, Global Economy, and Labour Market
9. Robert B. Reich: Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer
10. Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder: Education, Globalization, and Economic Development
11. Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio: The New Knowledge Work
12. David N. Ashton and Johnny Sung: Education, Skill Formation, and Economic Development: The Singaporean Approach
13. Maureen Woodhall: Human Capital Concepts
14. Jill Blackmore: The Gendering of Skill and Vocationalism in Twentieth-Century Australian Education
15. Henry M. Levin and Carolyn Kelley: Can Education Do It Alone?
Part Three: The State and the Restructuring of Teachers' Work
16. John Codd, Liz Gordon, and Richard Harker: Education and the Role of the State: Devolution and Control Post-Picot
17. Roger Dale: The Global Economy, the State, and the Politics of Education
18. Andy Green: Educational Achievement in Centralized and Decentralized Systems
19. Geoffrey Whitty: On the Changing Relationships Between the State, Civil Society, and Changing Notions of Teacher Professionalism
20. Gerald Grace: Changing Notions of Educational Management and Leadership
21. Harry Torrance: Assessment, Accountability, and Standards Using Assessment to Control the Reform of Schooling
22. Linda Darling-Hammond: Restructuring Schools for Student Success
23. Andy Hargreaves: Restructuring Restructuring: Postmodernity and the Prospects for Educational Change
Part Four: Politics, Markets, and School Effectiveness
24. John E. Chubb and Terry M. Moe: Politics, Markets, and the Organization of Schools
25. Hugh Lauder: Education, Democracy, and the Economy
26. Phillip Brown: The `Third Wave': Education and the Ideology of Parentocracy
27. Stephen J. Ball, Richard Bowe, and Sharon Gewirtz: Circuits of Schooling: A Sociological Exploration of Parental Choice of School in Social Class Contexts
28. Amy Stuart Wells: African-American Students' View of School Choice
29. Sietske Waslander and Martin Thrupp: Choice, Competition, and Segregation: An Empirical Analysis of A New Zealand Secondary School Market, 1990-93
30. Michelle Fine: [Ap]parent Involvement: Reflections on Parents, Power, and Urban Public Schools
31. Peter Mortimore: Can Effective Schools Compensate for Society?
Part Five: Knowledge, Curriculum, and Cultural Politics
32. Allan Bloom: Introduction: Our Virtue
33. Cornel West: The New Cultural Politics of Difference
34. Chandra Talpade Mohanty: On Race and Voice: Challenges for Liberal Education in the 1990s
35. Lisa D. Delpit: The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children
36. Michael W. Apple: What Postmodernists Forget: Cultural Capital and Official Knowledge
37. R. W. Connell: The Big Picture: Masculinities in Recent World History
38. Gaby Weiner, Madeleine Arnot, and Miriam David: Is the Future Female? Female Success, Male Disadvantage, and Changing Gender Patterns in Education
Part Six: Meritocracy and Social Exclusion
39. A. H. Halsey: Trends in Access and Equity in Higher Education: Britain in International Perspective
40. Anthony Heath and Dorren McMahon: Education and Occupational Attainments: The Impact of Ethnic Origins
41. John Goldthorpe: Problems of `Meritocracy'
42. Andrew McPherson and J. Douglas Willms: Equalization and Improvement: Some Effects of Comprehensive Reorganization in Scotland
43. Annette Lareau: Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital
44. Amy Stuart Wells and Irene Serna: The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools
45. Phillip Brown: Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: Some Observations on Recent Trends in Education, Employment, and the Labour Market
46. William Julius Wilson: Studying Inner-City Social Dislocations: The Challenge of Public Agenda Research
47. John U. Ogbu: Racial Stratification and Education in the United States: Why Inequality Persists
48. Steven Fraser: The Bell Curve Wars
49. A. H. Halsey and Michael Young: The Family and Social Justice

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A H Halsey is Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Change in British Society (now in its fourth edition) and Decline of Donnish Dominion, both published by OUP.

Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education at the School of Education, University of Bath.

Phillip Brown is at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

Professor Amy Stuart Wells is at the University of California.

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Special Features

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.)