Sociology of Education

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Offering a comprehensive and critical perspective on the use of digital technology in education around the world, Education in a Digital World is an essential book for anyone wishing to make sense of the role of education and technology in contemporary globalised society...

Offering a comprehensive and critical perspective on the use of digital technology in education around the world, Education in a Digital World is an essential book for anyone wishing to make sense of the role of education and technology in contemporary globalised society...

Breaking new ground and building on the author’s established work on education policy, this book gives a full analytical and empirical account of the privatisation of education...

This book develops the current debate on the extent to which education is a force for change in a class-divided society, placing notions of class, power and control at the centre of the issue at a time when emphasis has been on learner identities...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Until the early 1990s the Japanese education system was often commended for achieving outstanding outcomes. However, this book reveals growing educational inequality, with an increasing gap in the attainment and aspirations of students from different social backgrounds. By looking at class in close ..

First published in 1982, this work is a critical survey of contemporary educational debates and themes which took on new urgency and importance at the time. _x000D_ It argues that trends in education at the time can be explained by a Marxist analysis. It suggests that the changes taking place in sch..

This book presents an analysis of the ‘essentialist ideology’, which is inherent to class-based societies. The author argues that essentialist ideology is efficient through its unconscious component and is imposed on everyone. It guides school selection and imposes on each class a language specific ..

This book presents an analysis of the ‘essentialist ideology’, which is inherent to class-based societies. The author argues that essentialist ideology is efficient through its unconscious component and is imposed on everyone. It guides school selection and imposes on each class a language specific ..

This book presents an analysis of the ‘essentialist ideology’, which is inherent to class-based societies. The author argues that essentialist ideology is efficient through its unconscious component and is imposed on everyone. It guides school selection and imposes on each class a language specific ..