Full Description
Robert Dreeben is one of the most widely read and influential sociologists of education of the past half-century and the author of several important books, one of which (the 1968 classic On What Is Learned in School) has been republished by Percheron Press.
In this volume inspired by Dreeben's work and career, chapters written by Dreeben's colleagues, students, and even one of his mentors present the latest academic research on schools and schooling and examine recent and ongoing school reform policies. The contributors address schooling and socialization, school organization and effects, teaching as an occupation, and other areas of sociology of education where Dreeben's research has had a profound impact. A concluding chapter by Dreeben discusses the field of sociology of education as a whole.
Contents
Foreword, John W. Meyer
I. INTRODUCTION
Robert Dreeben's Contributions to Sociology of Education, Adam Gamoran and Tom Loveless
II. SCHOOLING AND SOCIALIZATION
On What Is Learned in School: A Verstehen Approach, Aaron M. Pallas, Matthew Boulay, and Melinda Mechur Karp
The Problem of Classroom Goodwill, Charles E. Bidwell
Social Status versus Psychosocial Maturity as Predictors of School Outcomes in Japan and the United States, Alex Inkeles and P. Herbert Leiderman
III. HOW SCHOOLS WORK: ORGANIZATION AND EFFECTS
How School Governance Works: The Implementation of Integrated Reform in the Chicago Public Schools, Kenneth K. Wong
School Organization and Response to Systemic Breakdown, Maureen T. Hallinan
Tracking, Instruction, and Unequal Literacy in Secondary School English, Adam Gamoran and Sean Kelly
When Tensions Mount: Conceptualizing Classroom Situations and the Conditions of Student-Teacher Conflict, Daniel A. McFarland
IV. TEACHING AS AN OCCUPATION
The Governance of Teaching and Standards-Based Reform from the 1970s to the New Millennium, William A. Firestone
The Regulation of Teaching and Learning, Tom Loveless
V. SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION AS A FIELD OF INQUIRY
Sociology of Education: An Overview of the Field at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century, Barbara Schneider
VI. CONCLUSION
Classrooms and Politics, Robert Dreeben
Author Index
Subject Index
