Education Culture, Economy, and Society

by Halsey, A. H.; Lauder, Hugh; Brown, Phillip; Wells, Amy Stuart

• ISBN13: 9780198781875
• ISBN10: 0198781873
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-05-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book is for everyone concerned with the social study of education, placing it at the center of political and sociological debate about post-industrial societies. The fifty-two papers examine major changes that have taken place in the late twentieth century, giving students a comprehensive introduction to both the nature of these changes and to their interpretation in relation to long-standing debates within education, sociology, and cultural studies.

Author Biography

A H Halsey is Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Change in British Society (now in its fourth edition) and Decline of Donnish Dominion, both published by OUP.
Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education at the School of Education, University of Bath.
Phillip Brown is at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
Professor Amy Stuart Wells is at the University of California.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Social Transformation of Education and Society

Education, Culture, and Society

The Forms of Capital

Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible

Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital

The Post-Modern Condition

Crossing the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism

Having an Postmodernist Turn or Postmodernist Angst: A Disorder Experienced by an Author Who is Not Yet Dead or Even Close to It

Feminisms and Education

Education, Global Economy, and Labour Market

Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer

Education, Globalization, and Economic Development

The New Knowledge Work

Education, Skill Formation, and Economic Development: The Singaporean Approach

Human Capital Concepts

The Gendering of Skill and Vocationalism in Twentieth-Century Australian Education

Can Education Do It Alone?

The State and the Restructuring of Teachers' Work

Education and the Role of the State: Devolution and Control Post-Picot

The Global Economy, the State, and the Politics of Education

Educational Achievement in Centralized and Decentralized Systems

On the Changing Relationships Between the State, Civil Society, and Changing Notions of Teacher Professionalism

Changing Notions of Educational Management and Leadership

Assessment, Accountability, and Standards Using Assessment to Control the Reform of Schooling

Restructuring Schools for Student Success

Restructuring Restructuring: Postmodernity and the Prospects for Educational Change

Politics, Markets, and School Effectiveness

Politics, Markets, and the Organization of Schools

Education, Democracy, and the Economy

The `Third Wave': Education and the Ideology of Parentocracy

Circuits of Schooling: A Sociological Exploration of Parental Choice of School in Social Class Contexts

African-American Students' View of School Choice

Choice, Competition, and Segregation: An Empirical Analysis of A New Zealand Secondary School Market, 1990-93

[Ap]parent Involvement: Reflections on Parents, Power, and Urban Public Schools

Can Effective Schools Compensate for Society?

Knowledge, Curriculum, and Cultural Politics

Introduction: Our Virtue

The New Cultural Politics of Difference

On Race and Voice: Challenges for Liberal Education in the 1990s

The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children

What Postmodernists Forget: Cultural Capital and Official Knowledge

The Big Picture: Masculinities in Recent World History

Is the Future Female? Female Success, Male Disadvantage, and Changing Gender Patterns in Education

Meritocracy and Social Exclusion

Trends in Access and Equity in Higher Education: Britain in International Perspective

Education and Occupational Attainments: The Impact of Ethnic Origins

Problems of `Meritocracy'

Equalization and Improvement: Some Effects of Comprehensive Reorganization in Scotland

Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital

The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools

Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: Some Observations on Recent Trends in Education, Employment, and the Labour Market

Studying Inner-City Social Dislocations: The Challenge of Public Agenda Research

Racial Stratification and Education in the United States: Why Inequality Persists

The Bell Curve Wars

The Family and Social Justice

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