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.
Author(s): Michael W. Apple, Stephen J. Ball, Luis Armando Gandin
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 441
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 17
Introduction......Page 20
Part 1 Perspectives and theories......Page 32
‘Spatializing’ the sociology of education......Page 34
Foucault and education......Page 46
Education and critical race theory......Page 56
The ethics of national hospitality and globally mobile researchers......Page 67
Towards a sociology of the global teacher......Page 77
Codes, pedagogy and knowledge......Page 88
Social democracy, complexity and education......Page 98
The ‘new’ connectivities of digital education......Page 109
A cheese-slicer by any other name? Shredding the sociology of inclusion......Page 118
The sociology of mothering......Page 128
Rationalisation, disenchantment and re-enchantment......Page 140
Recognizing the subjects of education......Page 151
Part 2 Social processes and practices......Page 162
Doing the work of God......Page 164
New states, new governance and new education policy......Page 174
Towards a sociology of pedagogies......Page 186
Families, values, and class relations......Page 198
Popular culture and the sociology of education......Page 209
Schooling the body in a performative culture......Page 219
Tracking and inequality......Page 232
Economic globalisation, skill formation and the consequences for higher education......Page 248
Education and the right to the city......Page 260
A revisited theme – middle classes and the school......Page 272
Governing without governing......Page 283
The university in the twenty-first centur......Page 293
Part 3 Inequalities and resistances......Page 302
The Indian middle classes and educational advantage......Page 304
Equality and social justice......Page 315
Educational organizations and gender in times of uncertainty......Page 325
Bringing Bourdieu to ‘widening participation’ policies in higher education......Page 337
The sociology of elite education......Page 348
The dialogic sociology of the learning communities......Page 359
The democratization of governance in the Citizen School project......Page 368
Syncretism and hybridity......Page 377
Dilemmas of race-rememory buried alive......Page 389
Momentum and melancholia......Page 403
Sociology, social class and education......Page 415
Interfaces between the sociology of education and the studies about youth in Brazil......Page 424
Social class and schooling......Page 433
