Contemporary Debates in the Sociology of Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Contemporary Debates in the Sociology of Education: An Introduction

   • Rachel Brooks, Mark McCormack, Kalwant Bhopal

   Pages 1-18

3. Globalisation and Sociology of Education Policy: The Case of PISA

   • Bob Lingard, Sam Sellar

   Pages 19-38

4. Education Policy, Human Rights, Citizenship and Cohesion

   • Audrey Osler

   Pages 39-56

5. School Type and Inequality

   • Rita Nikolai, Anne West

   Pages 57-75

6. We Know What They Earn, But What Do They Learn? A Critique of Lifelong Learning through the Lens of Workplace Learning at the Bottom of the Service Sector

   • Steven Roberts

   Pages 76-92

7. In a Class of Their Own: How Working-Class Students Experience University

   • Wolfgang Lehmann

   Pages 93-111

8. Examining the (Em)Bodied Boundaries of High School Locker Rooms

   • Michael Kehler, Michael Atkinson

   Pages 112-130

9. Adolescent and Disabled or Adolescence Disabled? Education and the Construction of Gendered Identities among Adolescents with Intellectual Disability

   • Kagendo Mutua, Sandra Cooley Nichols

   Pages 131-148

10. It’s How You Look or What You Like: Gender Harassment at School and Its Association with Student Adjustment

    • Elisabeth Morgan Thompson, Katerina O. Sinclair, Riki Wilchins, Stephen T. Russell

    Pages 149-167

11. What Is So Liberal about Neo-Liberalism? Schooling, Law and Limitations of Race-Neutral Reforms

    • Zeus Leonardo, Hoang Tran

    Pages 168-184

12. Fear In and About Education

    • Carolyn Jackson

    Pages 185-201

13. Choosing Subjects: Sociological Approaches to Young Women’s Subject Choices

    • Heather Mendick

    Pages 202-217

14. Towards a Sociology of Education and Technology

    • Keri Facer, Neil Selwyn

    Pages 218-235

15. Back Matter

    Pages 237-238

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Some of the most prominent sociologists working in education today have collaborated to address a wide range of empirical and theoretical issues. Adopting an international perspective, this book foregrounds cutting-edge research that highlights both the diversity and complexity of understanding education in society.

• Diversity
• education
• education policy
• gender
• globalization
• learning
• lifelong learning
• Nation
• PISA
• school
• schooling
• service
• sociology
• sociology of education
• university

"This isn't another trot through the standard arguments within the sociology of education. It examines some of the key issues that will define the character of education systems over the next decade. It should be compulsory reading!" - Phillip Brown, Cardiff University, UK

"This engaging book is not just about debates within the sociology of education, it also demonstrates how sociological perspectives can help us understand the ways in which contemporary policies and practices in education reproduce or challenge existing and emerging inequalities." - Geoff Whitty, Institute of Education, University of London, UK

"This book offers ample evidence of the continuing importance of applying a sociological lens to the education landscape. Contemporary Debates in the Sociology of Education offers international, timely and critical perspectives on educational policies, practices and processes. The contributors show how the key sociological concepts of social justice and inequality remain pertinent to understanding the continuities and complexities of education." - Amanda Coffey, Cardiff University, UK

"This collection serves its purpose of stimulating thought on the contemporary debates of the sociology of education and as such would provide an excellent starting point for those new to the field or who are currently engaged within education but would like to explore a more sociological analysis of some of the issues and challenges they face." - Jon Rainford's blog

"a key aim of the book, according to the editors, is both to advance debates within the sociology of education and also to raise its importance as a subdiscipline which I would say they have achieved. It is an interesting, informative and thought-provoking book which I recommend to all sociologists and educationists." Gill Crozier, British Journal of Educational Studies

• University of Surrey, UK

  Rachel Brooks

• Durham University, UK

  Mark McCormack

• University of Southampton, UK

  Kalwant Bhopal

Michael Atkinson, University of Toronto, Canada Keri Facer, University of Bristol, UK Carolyn Jackson, Lancaster University, UK Michael Kehler, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Wolfgang Lehmann, The University of Western Ontario, Canada Zeus Leonardo, University of California, Berkeley, USA Bob Lingard, The University of Queensland, Australia Heather Mendick, Brunel University, UK Kagendo Mutua, University of Alabama, USA Sandra Nichols, University of Alabama, USA Rita Nikolai, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany Audrey Osler, Buskerud University College, Norway Steven Roberts, University of Kent, UK Stephen T. Russell, University of Arizona, USA Sam Sellar, The University of Queensland, Australia Neil Selwyn, Monash University, Australia Katerina O. Sinclair, University of Arizona, USA Elisabeth Morgan Thompson, LFA Group, USA Hoang Tran, University of California, Berkeley, USA Anne West, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

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