1st Edition

Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum (RLE Edu L)

Edited By Len Barton, Roland Meighan, Stephen Walker Copyright 1980
220 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

Although the different contributions to this book range over a wide spectrum of substantive issues, they share a common interest. This is a concern to explore the ways in which notions of the relations between theory and practice, between belief and action, can be used to develop three kinds of sensitivity in the sociology of education. A sensitivity towards how school systems are created,... Read more

Preface. Introduction. 1. Curricular form and the Logic of Technical Control: Building the Possessive Individual. Michael Apple. 2. Schooling and the Reproduction of Class and Gender Relations Madeleine MacDonald. 3. Contradiction and Reproduction in Educational Theory Herbert Gintis and Samuel Bowles. 4. Schooling for Change: function, Correspondence and Cause Tony Edwards. 5. The Limits of Curricular Experience: an Analysis of Limits and Possibility Peter Musgrave. 6. Contradiction and Change in Educational Practices Janet Strivens. 7. Teacher Ideologies and Pupil Disaffection Rosemary Chessum. 8. Locations of Learning and Ideologies of Education: Some Issues Raised by A Study of ‘Education Otherwise.’ 9. Curricula are Social Processes Gary Easthope. 10. Towards a New Socialist Sociology of Education David Reynolds and Mike Sullivan. Index.

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Len Barton, Roland Meighan, Stephen Walker