Sociology of Education

First published in 1979, this study includes detailed assessments of family environments in an analysis of performance of children at their schools. Much of the research is based on data  from families in Australia, Canada and England...

This book completes the series of readers for the Open University's undergraduate course EU208 Exploring Educational Issues. A major theme of the book is the controversy around early years education and it looks at inequality issues...

Research in school success in contemporary China has argued that market reforms have reproduced the advantages for students from cadre and professional family backgrounds while simultaneously creating new opportunities for children of the new arising economic elites. However, it has performed less f..

Research in school success in contemporary China has argued that market reforms have reproduced the advantages for students from cadre and professional family backgrounds while simultaneously creating new opportunities for children of the new arising economic elites. However, it has performed less f..

Compiled by the current editors of the journal Gender & Education, this new book maps the development of thinking in gender and education over the last fifteen years, featuring groundbreaking articles from leading authors in the field...

Emerging from Inside Film, a project that helps prisoners and people on probation make their own films, this book discusses the need for working class people to represent themselves and challenge mainstream stereotypes and assumptions about them. The author demonstrates that film and television are ..

The contributors of this collection consider the issues relating to gender from these different settings and discuss their findings with reference to the implications for early childhood education...

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First published in 1983, Gender, Class and Education is a collection of presentations made at the fifth Westhill Sociology of Education Conference in July, 1982. This volume focuses on the reproduction of gender relations through education...

First published in 1983, Gender, Class and Education is a collection of presentations made at the fifth Westhill Sociology of Education Conference in July, 1982. This volume focuses on the reproduction of gender relations through education...

Drawing on the perspectives of minority teachers and students, and utilizing feminist, queer and anti-racist frameworks, this book rejects role modeling as a basis for explaining or addressing boys’ disaffection with schooling...

Drawing on the perspectives of minority teachers and students, and utilizing feminist, queer and anti-racist frameworks, this book rejects role modeling as a basis for explaining or addressing boys’ disaffection with schooling...