1st Edition
The Family, Education and Society (RLE Edu L Sociology of Education)
By Frank Musgrove
Copyright 1966
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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In this provocative study the author challenges many contemporary assumptions about the modern family, the circumstances of home life which lead to academic success and the proper relationship between home and school. The modern family is not ‘in decline’; its history is a success story. It is stable, unsociable, emotionally potent. Over the past three centuries it has turned its back on society.... Read more
1. The Changing Parent: The Substitution of Influence for Power. 2. Home and School: An Historic Conflict. 3. Success Story. 4. A Threat to Society. 5. The ‘Good Home’ 6. Satisfactions at Home, Club, Work and School. 7. A Bridge to the World. References. Select Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Frank Musgrove
‘Magnificently provocative...and characterized by vigour and originality without losing touch with fact and scholarship.’ Education
‘....an important work in educational sociology.’ Teacher’s World
