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The Social Organization of Schooling /

"Employing a variety of analytical methods, The Social Organization of Schooling provides a sound understanding of the social mechanisms at work in our educational system. This volume brings a fresh perspective to the many ongoing debates in education policy and is essential reading for anyone...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Schneider, Barbara L. (Editor ), Hedges, Larry V. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2005]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the social organization of schools / Barbara Schneider
  • PART 1 : the relationship between sociology and the study of education
  • A sociological agenda for research on education / Charles E. Bidwell
  • Ecosystems and the structuring of organizations / W. Richard Scott
  • PART 2 : teaching as a profession
  • Teaching and the competence of occupations / Robert Dreeben
  • The prospects for teaching as a profession / Susan Moore Johnson
  • The anomaly of educational organizations and the study of organizational control / Richard M. Ingersoll
  • Professional community by design : building social capital through teacher professional development / Adam Gamoran, Ramona Gunter, and Tona Williams
  • PART 3 : The microsociology of schools and classrooms
  • The normative culture of a school and student socialization / Maureen T. Hallinan
  • Why work when you can play? dynamics of formal and informal organization in classrooms / Daniel a. McFarland
  • School organization, curricular structure, and the distribution and effects of instruction for tenth-grade science / Robert A. Petrin
  • Subgroups as meso-level entities in the social organization of schools / Kenneth A. Frank and Yong Zhao
  • PART 4 : change in social organizations
  • The cross-national context of the gender gap in math and science / Catherine Riegle-Crumb
  • Organizational coupling, control, and change : the role of higher-order models of control in educational reform / Christopher B. Swanson
  • Achievement and equity / Chandra Muller and Kathryn S. Schiller
  • School transition programs in organizational context : problems of recruitment, coordination, and integration / Kathryn S. Schiller
  • Mobilizing community resources to reform failing schools / Lori Diane Hill.