Education Culture, Economy, and Society

This book is for everyone concerned with the social study of education, placing it at the center of political and sociological debate about post-industrial societies. The fifty-two papers examine major changes that have taken place in the late twentieth century, giving students a comprehensive introduction to both the nature of these changes and to their interpretation in relation to long-standing debates within education, sociology, and cultural studies.

Education: Culture, Economy, and Society is a book for everyone concerned with the social study of education: students studying the sociology of education, foundations of education, educational policy, and other related courses. It aims to establish the social study of education at the centre stage of political and sociological debate about post-industrial societies. In examining major changes which have taken place in the late twentieth century, it gives students a comprehensive introduction to both the nature of these changes and to their interpretation in relation to long-standing debates within education, sociology, and cultural studies. The extensive editorial introduction outlines the major theoretical approaches within the sociology of education, assesses their contribution to an adequate understanding of the changing educational context, and sets out the key issues and areas for future research. The 52 papers in this wide-ranging thematic reader bring together the most powerful work in education into an international dialogue which is sure to become a classic text.

1 - Introduction: The Social Transformation of Education and Society
2 - The Forms of Capital
3 - Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible
4 - Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
5 - The Post-Modern Condition
6 - Crossing the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism
7 - Having an Postmodernist Turn or Postmodernist Angst: A Disorder Experienced by an Author Who is Not Yet Dead or Even Close to It
8 - Feminisms and Education Gaby Weiner
9 - Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer
10 - Education, Globalization, and Economic Development
11 - The New Knowledge Work
12 - Education, Skill Formation, and Economic Development: The Singaporean Approach
13 - Human Capital Concepts
14 - The Gendering of Skill and Vocationalism in Twentieth-Century Australian Education
15 - Can Education Do It Alone?
16 - Education and the Role of the State: Devolution and Control Post-Picot
17 - The Global Economy, the State, and the Politics of Education
18 - Educational Achievement in Centralized and Decentralized Systems
19 - On the Changing Relationships Between the State, Civil Society, and Changing Notions of Teacher Professionalism
20 - Changing Notions of Educational Management and Leadership
21 - Assessment, Accountability, and Standards Using Assessment to Control the Reform of Schooling
22 - Restructuring Schools for Student Success
23 - Restructuring Restructuring: Postmodernity and the Prospects for Educational Change
24 - Politics, Markets, and the Organization of Schools
25 - Education, Democracy, and the Economy
26 - The `Third Wave': Education and the Ideology of Parentocracy
27 - Circuits of Schooling: A Sociological Exploration of Parental Choice of School in Social Class Contexts
28 - African-American Students' View of School Choice
29 - Choice, Competition, and Segregation: An Empirical Analysis of A New Zealand Secondary School Market, 1990-93
30 - [Ap]parent Involvement: Reflections on Parents, Power, and Urban Public Schools
31 - Can Effective Schools Compensate for Society?
32 - Introduction: Our Virtue
33 - The New Cultural Politics of Difference
34 - On Race and Voice: Challenges for Liberal Education in the 1990s
35 - The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children
36 - What Postmodernists Forget: Cultural Capital and Official Knowledge
37 - The Big Picture: Masculinities in Recent World History
38 - Is the Future Female? Female Success, Male Disadvantage, and Changing Gender Patterns in Education
39 - Trends in Access and Equity in Higher Education: Britain in International Perspective
40 - Education and Occupational Attainments: The Impact of Ethnic Origins
41 - Problems of `Meritocracy'
42 - Equalization and Improvement: Some Effects of Comprehensive Reorganization in Scotland
43 - Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital
44 - The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools
45 - Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: Some Observations on Recent Trends in Education, Employment, and the Labour Market
46 - Studying Inner-City Social Dislocations: The Challenge of Public Agenda Research
47 - Racial Stratification and Education in the United States: Why Inequality Persists
48 - The Bell Curve Wars
49 - The Family and Social Justice

A H Halsey is Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Change in British Society (now in its fourth edition) and Decline of Donnish Dominion, both published by OUP. Hugh Lauder is Professor of Education at the School of Education, University of Bath. Phillip Brown is at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Professor Amy Stuart Wells is at the University of California.