Voicing Concerns: Sociological Perspectives on Contemporary Education Reforms - Softcover

Madeleine Arnot (Editor); Len Barton (Editor)

9781873927007: Voicing Concerns: Sociological Perspectives on Contemporary Education Reforms

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1873927002 ISBN 13: 9781873927007

Publisher: Symposium Books, 1992

Since the early 1980s, sociology of education has been the subject of serious criticism, much of it emanating from supporters of the New Right in education. The discipline has been depicted as subversive, irrelevant and offering no really useful knowledge. In this collection of original articles, the authors seek to address such criticisms through an examination of key reforms. The chapters thus provide a critical commentary on past work as well as identifying a series of agendas for future research and analysis. Overall the intention is to encourage debate and dialogue. CONTENTS: Madeleine Arnot & Len Barton. Introduction; Miriam David. Parents and the State: how has social research informed education reform? Liz Kelly. Not in Front of the Children: responding to right-wing agendas on sexuality and education; Madeleine Arnot. Feminism, Education and the New Right; Len Barton & Mike Oliver. Special Needs: personal trouble or public issue? Ahmed Gurnah. On the Specificity of Racism; Andrew Pollard. Teachers' Responses to the Reshaping of Primary Education; David Halpin. Staying On and Staying In: comprehensive schooling in the 1960s; Tony Edwards, Sharon Gewirtz & Geoff Whitty. Whose Choice of Schools? Making Sense of City Technology Colleges; John Furlong. Reconstructing Professionalism: ideological struggle in initial teacher education; Geoffrey Walford. The Reform of Higher Education; Roger Dale. Recovery from a Pyrrhic Victory? Quality, Relevance and Impact in the Sociology of Education.

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