The social organization of schooling / Larry V. Hedges and Barbara Schneider, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hedges, Larry V.

Schneider, Barbara L.

JSTOR (Online Service)

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:

1 online resource (xii, 366 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2005.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Introduction : the social organization of schools / Barbara Schneider

PART 1 : the relationship between sociology and the study of education

A sociological agenda for research on education / Charles E. Bidwell

Ecosystems and the structuring of organizations / W. Richard Scott

PART 2 : teaching as a profession

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

PART 3 : The microsociology of schools and classrooms

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

PART 4 : change in social organizations

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.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781610442824

1610442822

Publisher Number:

99976954643

9780871543400

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.