A Sociology of Educating

by Meighan, Roland; Harber, Clive

• ISBN13: 9780826481283
• ISBN10: 0826481280
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-25
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Sociology of Educating, now in its fifth edition, has become firmly established in its field and is used on Initial Teacher Training (ITT) and Educational Studies courses. The book begins with a light-hearted taste of sociology, and then goes on to explore 6 key areas of education: assessment, ideologies of educating, sociological perspectives and the study of education, educational life chances, and the next learning system. This new edition has been fully updated to take into account educational issues that have developed since the previous edition, and has new sections on the impact of assessment on pupils, personalized learning and progressive education. New editor Clive Harber joins Ronald Meighan from the University of Birmingham and brings with him expertise in the field of International Education and Educational Development. Finally, this 5th edition has a new and more spacious text design making the textbook easy to read and navigate.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Preface to the 5th Edition	p. ix
Preface to the 1st Edition	p. xi
Familiarization
A Taste of Sociology	p. 3
Pupils as Clients?	p. 14
Teachers as Victims?	p. 31
Parents as Educators?	p. 45
Mass Media	p. 62
The Hidden Curriculum
The Hidden Curriculum: An Overview	p. 75
Space Talks: The Hidden Curriculum of Educational Buildings	p. 91
Timetables	p. 105
The Official Curriculum	p. 118
Organization	p. 145
Teacher Expectations	p. 157
The Hidden Curriculum of Language	p. 171
Assessment	p. 194
Ideologies of Educating
The Concept of Ideology	p. 211
Ideologies of Education	p. 218
Authoritarian and Non-authoritarian Ideologies of Education	p. 236
A Case Study in an Ideology of Education: Autonomous Study	p. 247
Case Studies: Democratic Education	p. 263
Sociological Perspectives and the Study of Education
Social Systems, Structures and Functions	p. 285
The Action Perspective	p. 299
The Conflict Perspective: A Marxian Approach	p. 316
Doing Research in Schools and Classrooms	p. 336
Postmodernism	p. 346
The Discourses of Education	p. 356
Educational Life Chances or Who Gets What?
Labelling Theory and Life Chances	p. 367
Gender Identity	p. 375
Social Class	p. 389
'Race' and Ethnic Identity	p. 403
Other Minorities: Those with 'Special Needs'	p. 421
Signposts to the Next Learning System
Alternatives	p. 441
Anatomy of Choice in Education	p. 453
The Next Learning System	p. 463
References	p. 484
Subject Index	p. 511
Name Index	p. 517
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