School And Society

by Feinberg, Walter; Soltis, Jonas F.

• ISBN13: 9780807744963
• ISBN10: 0807744964
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-05
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Author Biography

Jonas F. Soltis is William Heard Kilpatrick Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
PART I THE RELATION OF SCHOOL TO SOCIETY	1	(12)
Chapter 1 WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT	3	(10)
Factory Prep	3	(1)
An Imaginary Society	4	(2)
Three Schools of Thought	6	(2)
The Form of the Book	8	(5)
PART II SCHOOLING AS SOCIALIZATION AND PROGRESS	13	(28)
Chapter 2 THE FUNCTIONALIST PERSPECTIVE ON SCHOOLING	15	(14)
Functionalism	15	(5)
Equality of Educational Opportunity	20	(2)
Educational Reform: Three Cases	22	(2)
Assimilation, Political Socialization, and Modernization	24	(5)
Chapter 3 FUNCTIONAL THEORY, POLICY, AND PROBLEMS	29	(12)
Historical Impediments and Compensatory Education	30	(1)
Intellectual and Cultural Impediments	31	(4)
Poverty	35	(1)
Problems with Functionalism	36	(5)
PART III SCHOOLING AS LEGITIMATION AND REPRODUCTION	41	(38)
Chapter 4 MARXIST THEORY AND EDUCATION	43	(16)
Conflict Theory and Functionalism	43	(3)
Marxist Theory	46	(3)
Class Consciousness, False Consciousness, and Hegemony	49	(4)
Marxism, Neo-Marxism, and Education	53	(3)
A Neo-Marxist Interpretation of Schooling in Capitalist Society	56	(3)
Chapter 5 THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM REVISITED	59	(20)
A Theory of Cultural Reproduction	62	(3)
Student Subculture and the Working Class	65	(3)
Puzzles, Problems, and Prospects	68	(2)
Foucault and the Post Modern Move Beyond Marxism	70	(4)
Feminism as a Form of Conflict Theory	74	(5)
PART IV INTERPRETATION AND THE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF SCHOOLING	79	(34)
Chapter 6 THE INTERPRETIVIST POINT OF VIEW	81	(17)
An Argument for the Interpretivist Point of View	84	(2)
The Active Quality of Mind	86	(1)
The Role of Interpretation in Social Science	87	(6)
Interpretive Scholarship in Education	93	(5)
Chapter 7 MEANING AND MESSAGES; SCHOOLING AND SOCIALIZATION	98	(15)
Hermeneutics and Interpretation	102	(2)
Interpretation and Socialization	104	(3)
Interpretation, Socialization, and Legitimation	107	(2)
Objections to the Interpretivist Approach	109	(1)
What Is at Stake?	110	(3)
PART V CASES AND DISPUTES	113	(36)
Chapter 8 CASES AND DISPUTES	115	(34)
Student Government	117	(2)
The Roots of School Failure	119	(2)
The Hidden Curriculum	121	(1)
National Reports on Education	122	(1)
The Geography Lesson	123	(1)
Resource Allocation	124	(2)
College or Workforce?	126	(2)
Individual Differences and Equal Opportunity	128	(1)
Social Reproduction	129	(2)
Equal but Separate	131	(1)
Education for Work	132	(1)
Workforce School	133	(1)
Class Bias?	134	(2)
Social Studies	136	(1)
Interpretation and Ethical Relativism	136	(1)
The New Student	137	(1)
Mainstream or Not?	138	(2)
Social Conditioning and Freedom	140	(1)
Interpretation and Epistemic Relativism	141	(1)
A Third-World School System	142	(1)
The Curriculum	143	(6)
Notes	149	(4)
Annotated Bibliography	153