John Fitz, Brian Davies, John Evans

Education Policy and Social Reproduction

Class Inscription & Symbolic Control

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Produktbeschreibung

The approach is enthusiastic, ensuring that education policy remains interesting to the reader, making this is an important resource for students, policy analysts and policy-makers.

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This book develops the current debate on the extent to which education is a force for change in a class-divided society, placing notions of class, power and control at the centre of the issue at a time when emphasis has been on learner identities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 163mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780415240055
• ISBN-10: 0415240050
• Artikelnr.: 22784266

Autorenporträt

John Fitz, Brian Davies, John Evans

Inhaltsangabe

1. Understanding policy, understanding pedagogic discourse Introduction
Bernstein's sociology, a language for policy On our omissions 2. Framing
Equality? The Education Act 1944 Introduction Policy frameworks The 1944
legislation A governing partnership? Tripartism: a very British settlement?
Conclusions 3. Selection, class and opportunity Introduction Selection and
social class Selection and social class and school composition Greater
equality of opportunity? Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? Conclusions
4. Comprehensive schooling: Challenging inequality ? Introduction Going
comprehensive from the ground up What was driving the change? 10/65 and
after: Comprehensive Schooling and its challenges Neighbourhoods and
differentiation between schools Conclusions 5. Educational Systems and
Social Mobility Social mobility and education Social mobility, selection
and comprehensivisation Social Mobility, Meritocracy and Education
Conclusion 6. Bernstein, social reproduction and intergenerational
transmission Introduction Pedagogic discourse; family, school and work
Pedagogic discourse, policy and reproduction Pedagogic discourse: its key
features Sifting and Sorting Privileging practices Resources Conclusions 7.
Something happened: the policy framework post 1988 Introduction
Centralisation: reasserting central authority, putting on the pressure
Choice and diversity: power to parents? Conclusion 8. Diversity: selection
and stratification? Introduction From diversity to plurality 'New' Labour
and school diversity The Early Years Specialist Schools Academies Beacon
Schools and Leading Edge Partnerships Federations and Diversity Pathfinders
Faith-based schools The modernisation of comprehensive schools School
diversity and social equity Conclusions 9. Further reading Bibliography