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School Organisation (RLE Edu L) A Sociological Perspective

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260 Pages

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The internal organisation of the school touches on many areas of contemporary debate. Is there such a thing as a ‘good school’? Are large urban comprehensives necessarily impersonal? Are the charges of indiscipline, conflict and declining standards in modern schools based on a failure to understand schools as institutions? At the time this book was first published sociological analysis had... Read more

Part 1: Introduction: School Organisation and the Sociological Perspective. 1. School Structure: Metaphors and Models. 2. Sociological Approaches to School Structure Part 2: The School as Complex Organisation 3. The School As A Social System – Unfolding the Functionalist Model. 4. The School as Bureaucracy. Part 3: Post-Weberian Modes of School Organisation 5. Environment, Tast and Structure: The Contingency Model of School Organisation. 6. Loosely Coupled Schools? Part 4: School Organisation and the ‘Interaction Order’. 7. Pupils, Teachers and Schools. 8. Patterns of Deviance: Adaptation and Anomie. Part 5: The Structuralist Perspective. 9. Structuralist Sociologies of the School: Bernstein and Foucault. 10. The Constitution of the School. Part 6: Conclusion: The Sociological Perspective and Organisational Practice. 11. Towards Reconstruction: Organisationl, Policy and Critique. 12. Summary and Conclusions.