1st Edition

Education and the Social Condition (RLE Edu L)

By Harold Silver Copyright 1980
228 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

This book reviews the educational experience of the 1960s and 1970s and to suggest ways of approaching major contemporary themes such as equality, accountability and standards. The author underlines a nineteenth and twentieth-century sociological tradition in analysing education and covers a range of educational themes including aspects of schooling and higher education, education as social... Read more

Acknowledgements. 1. The Social Condition: A Framework For Discussion. 2. Education and Social Policy. 3. Equality of Educational Opportunity: The Map of Uncertainty. 4. Schools, Social Change and Standards. 5. Public Control, Choice and the State. 6. Accountability and Authority. 7. Knowledge as Power. 8. Higher Educations. 9. Higher Statuses. 10. Teachers and Adolescents. 11. Change. References. Index.

Biography

Silver, Harold