Full Description
This comprehensive anthology features classical readings on the Sociology of Education, as well as current, original essays by notable contemporary scholars. Assigned as a main text or a supplement, this fully updated Sixth Edition uses the open systems approach to provide readers with a framework for understanding and analyzing the book's range of topics. Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade, and new co-editor Jenny M. Stuber, all experienced instructors in this subject, have chosen articles that are highly readable, and that represent the field's major theoretical perspectives, methods, and issues.The Sixth Edition includes twenty new selections and five revisions of original readings and features new perspectives on some of the most contested issues in the field today, such as school funding, gender issues in schools, parent and neighborhood influences on learning, growing inequality in schools, and charter schools.
Contents
Chapter 1Reading 1. Sociology of Education: A Unique Perspective for Understanding Schools - Jeanne H. Ballantine and Flloyd M. HammackReading 2. Getting Started: Understanding Education Through Sociological Theory - Jeanne H. Ballantine and Joan Reading 3. Moral Education - Emily DurkheimReading 4. Conflict Theory of Educational Stratification - Randall CollinsReading 5. Social Reproduction - David SwartzReading 6. On Understanding the Process of Schooling: The Contributions of Labeling Theory - Ray C. RistChapter 2: Studying Schools: Research Methods in EducationReading 7. Chilly Classrooms for Female Undergraduate Students: A Question of Method? - Elizabeth J. Allan and Mary MaddenReading 8. Small Class Size and Its Effects - Bruce J. Biddle and David C. BerlinerReading 9. How to Avoid Statistical Traps - Gerald W. BraceyChapter 3: Schooling in a Social Context: Educational EnvironmentsReading 10. The Structure of Educational Organizations - John. W. Meyer and Brian RowanReading 11. A Broader and Bolder Approach Uses Education to Break the Cycle of Poverty - Pedro A. NogueraReading 12. Good Schools, Rich Schools; Bad Schools, Poor Schools: Why America's Public Schools are so Unequal - Alana SemuelsReading 13. Coached for the Classroom: Parents' Cultural Transmission and Children's Reproduction of Educational Inequalities - Jessica McCrory CalarcoChapter 4: Schools as Organizations: Formal and Informal EducationReading 14. How Schools Work - Rebecca Barra and Robert DreebenReading 15. Learning the Student Role: Kindergarten as Academic Boot Camp - Harry L. GraceyReading 16. Becoming a Gendered Body: Practices of Preschools - Karin A. MartinReading 17. "Why Can't We Learn About This?": Sexual Minority Students Navigate the Official and Hidden Curricular Spaces of High School - Ingrid E. Castro and Mark Conor SujakReading 18. Academic Learning + Socioemotional Learning=National Priority - Roger P. Weissberg and Jason CascarinoChapter 5: Roles and Responsibilities: Administrators, Teachers, and StudentsReading 19. School Boards: Why American Education Needs Them - Anne L. BryantReading 20. School Principal: Complications and Complexities - Dan C. LortieReading 21. The Status of Teaching as a Profession - Richard M. Ingersoll and Gregory CollinsReading 22. Perils and Promises: Middle-Class Parental Involvement in Urban Schools - Maria Bloomfield Cucchiara and Erin McNamara HorvatReading 23. Make Students Part of the Solution, Not the Problem - Trevor GardnerChapter 6: What We Teach in Schools: Knowledge for What and for Whom?Reading 24. Monuments Between Covers: The Politics of Textbooks - David TyackReading 25. The Changing Face of War in Textbooks: Depictions of World War II and Vietnam, 1970-2009 - Richard Lachmann and Lacy MitchellReading 26. Facts or Critical Thinking Skills? What NAEP Results Say - Harold WenglinskyChapter 7: Who Gets Ahead? Race, Class, and Gender in EducationReading 27. Growing Income Inequality Threatens American Education - Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. MurnaneReading 28. The Rules of the Game and the Uncertain Transmission of Advantage: Middle-class Parents' Search for an Urban Kindergarten - Annetee Lareau, Shani Adia Evans, and April YeeReading 29. The Geography of Inequality: Why Separate Means Unequal in American Public Schools - John R. Logan, Elisabeta Mica, and Sinem AdarReading 30. Explaining Racial Variations in Education - Caroline Hodges PersellReading 31. "Rednecks," "Rutters," and "Rithmetic": Social Class, Masculinity, and Schooling in a Rural Context - Edward W. MorrisReading 32. Gender and Education - Roslyn Arlin MichelsonChapter 8: Education and Opportunity: Attempts at Equality and Equity in EducationReading 33. Lessons Forgotten - Gary OrfieldReading 34. Only Here for a Day: Social Integration of Minority Students at a Majority White High School - Megan M. HollandReading 35. The Challenge of Diverse Public Schools - Toby L. Parcel, Joshua A. Hedrix, and Andrew J. TaylorReading 36. Charter Schools and the Risk of Increased Segregation - Iris C. RotergReading 37. High Stakes Testing Hasn't Brought Education Gains - Judith Browne Dianis, John H. Jackson, and Pedro NogueraReading 38. Organizing for Success: From Inequality to Quality - Linda Darling-HammondChapter 9: Higher EducationReading 39. The Unintended Decentering of Teaching and Learning - Gaye TuchmanReading 40. Beyond the One-Size-Fits All College Degree - James Rosenbaum, Kenna Cepa, and Janet RosenbaumReading 41. The Not-So-Pink Ivory Tower - Ann MullenReading 42. At the Activities Fair: How Class and Culture Matter for Becoming Involved in College - Jenny StuberReading 43. Friends with Academic Benefits - Janice McCabeChapter 10: Globalization and Education: Comparing Global SystemsReading 44. A Global Compact on Learning: Taking Action on Education in Developing Countries - Brookings InstitutionReading 45. Inexcusable Absence: Who Are the Out-of-School Girls - and What Can Be Done to Get Them in School? - Maureen A. Lewis and Marlaine E. LockheedReading 46. Globalization and the Growth of International Educational Testing and Assessment - David H. Kamens and Connie L. McNeelyReading 47. Too Many Children Left Behind: The U.S. Achievement Gap in Comparative Perspective - Bruce Bradbury, Miles Corak, Jane Waldfogel, and Elizabeth WashbrookChapter 11: Can Schools Change? Educational Reform and ChangeReading 48. Deschooling Society - Ivan IllichReading 49. How Schools Really Matter - Douglass B. Downey and Benjamin G. GibbsReading 50. Can Schooling Contribute to a More Just Society? - Michael W. AppleReading 51. The Paradox of Success at a No-Excuses School - Joanne W. Golann
