Education and sociology : an encyclopedia / editors, David L. Levinson, Peter W. Cookson, Jr., Alan R. Sadovnik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levinson, David L., 1954-

Cookson, Peter W.

Sadovnik, Alan R.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational sociology--Encyclopedias.

Educational sociology.

Genre:

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 734 pages.)

Place of Publication:

New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This single-volume reference provides readers and researchers with access to details on a wide range of topics and issues in the sociology of education. Entries cover both national and international perspectives and studies, as well as tackling controversial points in education today, including gender inequality, globalization, minorities, meritocracy, and more. This is a key, one-of-a-kind resource for all educational researchers and educators.

Contents:

Education and sociology: an introduction / David L. Levinson and Alan R. Sadovnik

Adolescence and schools / Nancy Lesko, Roberta Jentes-Mason and Jolanda Westerhof-Shultz

Adult education / Peter Katopes

Affirmative action in education / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson

African-American achievement motivation / Margaret Hunter and Walter R. Allen

At-risk students / Gary Natriello

Bilingual education / Virginia Vogel Zanger

Brown V. Board of Education / Jennifer L. Hochschild

Catholic schools / Helen M. Marks

Classroom processes / Elizabeth G. Cohen

Code theory, pedagogic discourse and symbolic control / Alan R. Sadovnik.

Community colleges / Kevin J. Dougherty

Conflict theory / Christopher J. Hurn

Cooperative learning in elementary and secondary schools / Robert E. Slavin

Cultural capital / Timothy J. Madigan

Curriculum / Adam Gamoran

Curriculum history / Ivor F. Goodson

Desegregation / Stephen Samuel Smith

Desegregation of higher education / Faith G. Paul

Economics of education / Ivar Berg

Educational achievement and attainment in the United States / Thomas M. Smith

Educational assessment / Leslie C. Soosak

Educational attitudes: abstract and concrete / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson

Educational productivity / Mark Berends

Educational reform and sociology in England and Wales / Geoffrey Walford

Educational reform in the United States: 1980's and 1990's / Alan R. Sadovnik, Peter W. Cookson, Susan F. Semel and David L. Levinson

Elites and educational reform / Peter W. Cookson and Brenda Donly

Equality in education / Maureen T. Hallinan

Ethnicity / Edith W. King.

Ethnography / Peter McLaren and Amanda Datnow

Extracurricular activities / Pamela Anne Quiroz

Functionalist theories of education / Peter W. Cookson and Alan R. Sadovnik

Gender and education / Sara Delamont

Gender and math education / Karen Karp

Gender inequality / Linda Grant and Xue Lan Rong

Gender inequality in education: international comparisons / Karen Bradley

Gender socialization and education: where we've been and where we might go / Joan Z. Spade

Globalization / John Boli

High school dropouts / Aaron M. Pallas

Higher education / Floyd M. Hammack

Higher education: international / James C. Hearn and Jan Sandor

Higher education and social equality / Sophia Catsambis

Higher education in the United States: Latinos / Susan Moreno and Chandra Muller

Historically black colleges / Joseph O. Jewell and Walter R. Allen

Home schooling: contemporary / Maralee Mayberry

Homeless children and youth / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson.

Human capital theory / David L. Levinson

Ideology and curriculum / Yoshiko Nozaki and Michael W. Apple

Imperialism and education / Mark B. Ginsburg and Thomas Clayton

International competition and education crises: cross-national studies of school outcomes / David P. Baker

IQ / Christopher J. Hurn

Longitudinal studies: an introduction: opening the black box / Kathryn S. Schiller

Longitudinal studies data collection program / Carl Schmidt

Magnet schools in urban education / Rolf K. Blank

Mass schooling / Francisco O. Ramirez

Meritocracy / Thomas B. Hoffer

Multiculturalism / Patricia Gandara

Politics of education / Kevin J. Dougherty

Progressive education / Susan F. Semel

Quasi-markets in education / Geoff Whitty

Race and education / Roslyn Arlin Mickelson

Restructuring / Peter M. Hall and Patrick J.W. McGinty

School-based management: what it is and does it make a difference / Priscilla Wohlstetter, Kerri L. Briggs and Amy Van Kirk

School choice / Amy Stuart Wells.

School effects / Roger C. Shouse

School, family and community partnerships / Joyce L. Epstein and Mavis G. Sanders

School textbooks and cultural authority / Sandra L. Wong

Single-sex education and coeducation / Helen M. Marks

Social capital: a ubiquitous emerging conception / Barbara Schneider

Social reproduction / David Swartz

Sociology of education as critical theory / Michael Young

Sociology of education: feminist perspectives: continuity and contestation in the field / Jo-Anne Dillabough and Madeleine Arnot

Sociology of education: Marxist theories / Fred L. Pincus

Sociology of education: new / Philip Wexler

Sociology of education: open systems approach / Jeanne H. Ballantine

Sociology of education: postmodernism / Alan R. Sadovnik

Sociology of education: theoretical approaches / Jeanne H. Ballantine

Special education / Hugh Mehan, Jane R. Mercer and Robert Rueda

Sport and schooling / C. Roger Rees

Structuralism / Paul Atkinson

Student cultures and academic achievement / Sandra L. Wong

Summer learning / Barbara Heyns.

Teacher assessment and evaluation / Richard M. Ingersoll

Teacher burnout / A. Gary Dworkin

Teacher unions, old and new / Ronald Henderson

Teachers and teaching / Bruce J. Biddle and Thomas L. Good

Tracking / Amanda Datnow and Robert Cooper

Urban schools / Julia Gwynne

Vocational education / James E. Rosenbaum

Working parents / Chandra Muller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781315049250

1315049252

Publisher Number:

99990107523

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