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The social organization of schooling / Larry V. Hedges and Barbara Schneider, editors.
LIBRA LC191.4 .S653 2005
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Schools--United States--Sociological aspects.
- Schools.
- Educational sociology.
- School management and organization--United States.
- School management and organization.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2005]
- Contents:
- Introduction : the social organization of schools / Barbara Schneider
- A sociological agenda for research on education / Charles E. Bidwell
- Ecosystems and the structuring of organizations / W. Richard Scott
- Teaching and the competence of occupations / Robert Dreeben
- The prospects for teaching as a profession / Susan Moore Johnson
- The anomaly of educational organizations and the study of organizational control / Richard M. Ingersoll
- Professional community by design : building social capital through teacher professional development / Adam Gamoran, Ramona Gunter, and Tona Williams
- The normative culture of a school and student socialization / Maureen T. Hallinan
- Why work when you can play? dynamics of formal and informal organization in classrooms / Daniel A. McFarland
- School organization, curricular structure, and the distribution and effects of instruction for tenth-grade science / Robert A. Petrin
- Subgroups as meso-level entities in the social organization of schools / Kenneth A. Frank and Yong Zhao
- The cross-national context of the gender gap in math and science / Catherine Riegle-Crumb
- Organizational coupling, control, and change : the role of higher-order models of control in educational reform / Christopher B. Swanson
- Achievement and equity / Chandra Muller and Kathryn S. Schiller
- School transition programs in organizational context : problems of recruitment, coordination, and integration / Kathryn S. Schiller
- Mobilizing community resources to reform failing schools / Lori Diane Hill.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-355) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0871543400
- OCLC:
- 57124510
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