R. Brooks & M. McCormack 
Contemporary Debates in the Sociology of Education [PDF ebook] 

Some of the most prominent sociologists working in education today have collaborated to address a wide range of empirical and theoretical issues. Adopting an international perspective, this book foregrounds cutting-edge research that highlights both the diversity and complexity of understanding education in society.

Spis treści

1. Contemporary Debates within the Sociology of Education: An Introduction; Rachel Brooks, Mark Mc Cormack and Kalwant Bhopal 2. Globalization and Sociology of Education Policy: The Case of PISA; Bob Lingard and Sam Sellar 3. Education Policy, Human Rights, Citizenship and Cohesion; Audrey Osler 4. School Type and Inequality; Rita Nikolai and Anne West 5. We Know What They Earn, but What Do They Learn?: A Critique of Lifelong Learning through the Lens of Workplace Learning at the Bottom of the Service Sector; Steven Roberts 6. In a Class of their Own: How Working-class Students Experience University; Wolfgang Lehmann 7. Examining the (Em)bodied Boundaries of High School Locker Rooms; Michael Kehler and Michael Atkinson 8. Adolescent and Disabled or Adolescence Disabled? Education and the Construction of Gendered Identities Among Adolescents with Intellectual Disability; Kagendo Mutua and Sandra Cooley Nichols 9. It’s How You Look or What You Like: Gender Harassment at School and its Association with Student Adjustment; Elisabeth Morgan Thompson, Katerina O. Sinclair, Riki Wilchins & Stephen T. Russell 10. What is so Liberal about Neoliberalism?: Schooling, Law and Limitations of Race-neutral Reforms; Zeus Leonardo and Hoang Tran 11. Fear In and About Education; Carolyn Jackson 12. Choosing Subjects: Sociological Approaches to Young Women’s Subject Choices; Heather Mendick 13. Towards a Sociology of Education and Technology; Keri Facer and Neil Selwyn

O autorze

Michael Atkinson, University of Toronto, Canada Keri Facer, University of Bristol, UK Carolyn Jackson, Lancaster University, UK Michael Kehler, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Wolfgang Lehmann, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Zeus Leonardo, University of California, Berkeley, USA Bob Lingard, The University of Queensland, Australia Heather Mendick, Brunel University, UK Kagendo Mutua, University of Alabama, USA Sandra Nichols, University of Alabama, USA Rita Nikolai, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany Audrey Osler, Buskerud University College, Norway Steven Roberts, University of Kent, UK Stephen T. Russell, University of Arizona, USA Sam Sellar, The University of Queensland, Australia Neil Selwyn, Monash University, Australia Katerina O. Sinclair, University of Arizona, USA Elisabeth Morgan Thompson, LFA Group, USA Hoang Tran, University of California, Berkeley, USA Anne West, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK