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Jeanne H. BallantinePublication Details
Book5th edPrentice Hall2001Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) LC191 .B254 2001 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Comprehensive, contemporary, and cross-cultural in perspective, this book provides a sociological approach to education– from several theoretical approaches and their practical application, to current educational issues, to the structure and processes that make education systems work. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Ch. 1. Sociology of Education: A Unique Perspective on Schools
- Ch. 2. Conflicting Functions and Processes in Education: What Makes the System Work
- Ch. 3. Education and the Process of Stratification
- Ch. 4. Race, Class, and Gender: Attempts to Achieve Equality of Educational Opportunity
- Ch. 5. The School as an Organization
- Ch. 6. Formal School Statuses and Roles: "The Way It Spozed to Be"
- Ch. 7. Students: The Core of the School
- Ch. 8. The Informal System and the "Hidden Curriculum": What Really Happens in School?
- Ch. 9. The Educational System and the Environment: A Symbiotic Relationship
- Ch. 10. The System of Higher Education
- Ch. 11. Educational Systems Around the World: A Comparative View
- Ch. 12. Educational Systems Around the World: Case Studies
- Ch. 13. Educational Movements and Reform
- Ch. 14. Change and Planning in Educational Systems
- Epilogue: Schools in the Early Twenty-First Century
ISBN
- 0130259748
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