A Political Sociology Of Educational Reform

Author : Thomas S. Popkewitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807730904
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Political Sociology of Educational Reform written by Thomas S. Popkewitz and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author investigates the discourse of contemporary educational reform using a thematic perspective (rather than a chronological one) of 19th- and 20th-century history. The book begins with an examination of the central conceptual and historical issues in the study of educational change.

Author : Thomas A. Popkewitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315528525
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Political Sociology of Educational Knowledge written by Thomas A. Popkewitz and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the sociology of knowledge, cultural studies, and post-foundational and historical approaches, this book asks what schooling does, and what are its limits and dangers. The focus is on how the systems of reason that govern schooling embody historically generated rules and standards about what is talked about, thought, and acted on; about the "nature" of children; about the practices and paradoxes of educational reform. These systems of reason are examined to consider issues of power, the political, and social exclusion. The transnational perspectives interrelate historical and ethnographic studies of the modern school to explore how curriculum is translated through social and cognitive psychologies that make up the subjects of schooling, and how educational sciences "act" to order and divide what is deemed possible to think and do. The central argument is that taken-for-granted notions of educational change and research paradoxically produce differences that simultaneously include and exclude.

Author : Helen Gunter
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447363361
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Political Sociology of Education Policy written by Helen Gunter and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical education policy research has a long tradition of political sociology. Drawing on data and analysis from the Education Policy Knowledgeable Polity (EPKP) project, supported by funders such as the British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council, this book presents a new political sociology for framing, conducting and presenting critical education policy research. In doing so, it will be the first in the field to interconnect political thinking from Arendt with sociological thinking from Bourdieu, producing innovative analysis for and about educational reform.

Author : Samira Alayan
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857454609
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Education Reform in the Middle East written by Samira Alayan and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education systems and textbooks in selected countries of the Middle East are increasingly the subject of debate. This volume presents and analyzes the major trends as well as the scope and the limits of education reform initiatives undertaken in recent years. In curricula and teaching materials, representations of the "Self" and the "Other" offer insights into the contemporary dynamics of identity politics. By building on a network of scholars working in various countries in the Middle East itself, this book aims to contribute to the evolution of a field of comparative education studies in this region.

Author : Rob Moore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134181825
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Power and Educational Reform written by Rob Moore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is made up of a selection of writings from an international team of scholars, highlighting the contribution made to the field of educational policy and educational policy research by Basil Bernstein's work on the sociology of pedagogy. These contributors explore, analyse and engage with contemporary political reforms of education, contemporary pedagogic debates and the changing nature of professional knowledge, relationships and structures. The subjects covered include: particular concepts such as voice research the significance of social class in relation to the language, schooling and home cultures differences between official and pedagogic recontextualising fields formation of different types of identities the construction of the learner formation of teacher identities and use of pedagogic discourses analysis of performance-based educational reforms and its impact on pedagogy.

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415675340
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Policy Making in Education written by Stephen J. Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews with key actors in the policy-making process, this book maps the changes in education policy and policy making in the Thatcherite decade. The focus of the book is the 1988 Education Reform Act, its origins, purposes and effects, and it looks behind the scenes at the priorities of the politicians, civil servants and government advisers who were influential in making changes. Using direct quotations from senior civil servants and former secretaries of state it provides a fascinating insight into the way in which policy is made. The book focuses on real-life political conflicts, examining the way in which education policy was related to the ideal of society projected by Thatcherism. It looks in detail at the New Right government advisers and think tanks; the industrial lobby, addressing issues such as the National Curriculum, national testing and City Technical Colleges. The author sets these important issues within a clear theoretical framework which illuminates the whole process of policy making.

Author : Thomas S. Popkewitz
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791414477
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Patterns of Power written by Thomas S. Popkewitz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reform of teacher education has been a focal point of state action in industrial countries since the early 1980s. Given this convergence of educational and governmental activity, the studies presented here are a significant departure from conventional discourse on reform, because they explore the ways that social regulation and political power operate through the processes of educational reform. This book considers the reform of teacher education to be an integral part of the larger system of social regulation that takes place in the arena of schooling. Reforms in teacher education involve complex sets of interactions among and within social institutions. These interactions help shape power relations and patterns of social regulation that operate through state, university, and school interactions. Nevertheless, the patterns that give direction and value to teacher education are not easily discerned in public discussions of educational change. Instead, many of the most important regulatory aspects of teacher education reform are partly obscured by a public discourse that focuses attention on formal responses to socioeconomic events, and that tends to divert critical attention away from the power that is exercised--and the interests that are served--during reform. This volume presents studies of reform in Australia, Finland, Iceland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Although these countries differ in their political and social histories, rates and levels of industrialization, and patterns of educational practice, there is a striking commonality in both the strategies that are employed to reform teacher education, and in the nature of social regulation that is a concomitant of reform.

Author : Russell F. Farnen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349257524
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics, Sociology and Economics of Education written by Russell F. Farnen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses international and interdisciplinary approaches to the comparative study of education in its political, sociological, and economic contexts. Major topics include critical theory, hegemony, postmodernism, oppression, disabilities, emancipation, corporatism, meritocracy, democracy, socialization, reproduction, pluralism, inequality, social analysis, postindustrialism, predatory culture, pragmatism, and 'subversion'. Educators from the US, UK, Canada, Netherlands, FRG, Israel, and Sweden survey the current educational scene in the US and Western Europe, major policy debates, and possible solutions for current public policy dilemmas.

Author : Thomas S. Popkewitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807737293
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Struggling for the Soul written by Thomas S. Popkewitz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Thomas Popkewitz tackles the persistent concern about unequal educational opportunities in the United States. He extends the theory of social epistemology argued in A Political Sociology of Educational Reform through an ethnographic study of a national reform programme that recruited teacher interns for urban and rural schools throughout the US.

Author : Richard Bowe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131541211X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming Education and Changing Schools written by Richard Bowe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Education Reform Act introduced in England and Wales in 1988 brought about enormous changes in schools, both as management units and as educational institutions. This book, first published in 1992, was the first to look at the effects of the Act in all its aspects on the basis of empirical evidence gathered from schools over the first three years of the Act's implementation. It looks at how change is being achieved in the Local Management of Schools, the influence of the market on schools, the introduction of the National Curriculum and the place of Special Needs provision in the new education scene. This book will be of interest to all who want to know about educational reform in Britain. It will also be of interest to those in the fields of education policy, educational management and sociology of education.