Sociology of Education

explores the meaning of equality and freedom in (global) ed. and relationship to universal rights to ed. Specifically, how ed. rights vary between civilizations. Focuses on Confucian, Islamic, Western, and Hindu civilizations..

Continuing Joel Spring’s reportage and analysis of the intersection of global forces and education, this text is a comprehensive, thought-provoking  overview and synthesis of current research, theories, and models related to the topic...

First published in 1981, this work is based on the author’s research in the playgrounds of two Oxford schools. It describes the order amongst the apparent chaos by relating the playtime activities – the games, rhymes and taunts of five-to-ten-year-olds in first and middle schools – to children’s goa..

This groundbreaking volume helps readers understand the history, evolution, and significance of this wide-ranging, often misunderstood, and increasingly important field of study...

The purpose of this book is to document some important ways schools influence children’s development and to describe various models and methods for studying schooling effects...

This text provides a socio-cultural and critical approach to health education considering whether some forms of health education do more harm than good, overly distorting perceptions of good health. The book considers healthism in education, both at a political level, and with regard to school pract..

Drawing on analytic tools, The New Educational Privatization examines specific domains that the education industry has had particular influence on—home schooling, remedial instruction, management consulting, test development, data management, and staff development...

Drawing from an empirical study based on Bourdieu’s theory, this book discusses higher education choice in China, particularly through examining social issues such as social stratification, parental involvement, gender and educational inequality...

Drawing from an empirical study based on Bourdieu’s theory, this book discusses higher education choice in China, particularly through examining social issues such as social stratification, parental involvement, gender and educational inequality...

History, Sociology and Education..

Home Schooling and Home Education provides an original account of home education and examines ways in which the discourses of home education are understood and contextualised in different countries, such as the UK and USA. By exploring home education in the global and local context of traditional sc..

First published in 1986, this book proposes and illustrates a new approach to the comparative analysis of educational policy, based on anthropological and historical inquiry. It reviews the transitions of Western countries, Japan, and the People’s Republic of China and in doing so investigates cultu..