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Schools and Societies

In Schools and Societies the author demonstrates that more than any other major institution, schooling and schools are political, and virtually everyone has opinions to voice and interests to promote.

Author: Steven Brint

Publisher: Pine Forge Press

ISBN: 0803990596

Category: Social Science

Page: 349

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In Schools and Societies the author demonstrates that more than any other major institution, schooling and schools are political, and virtually everyone has opinions to voice and interests to promote. Steven Brint musters a wealth of comparative material to show how schooling around the world is shaped by social forces even as it tries to shape the societies of the future.
1998-01-14 By Steven Brint
Social Science

Schools and Societies

Many schools , Powell and his associates found , allowed “ negotiated treaties ” between students and teachers rather than ... than class education , and it is only now beginning to develop in the industrialized societies of East Asia .

Author: Steven G. Brint

Publisher: Stanford University Press

ISBN: 0804750734

Category: Social Science

Page: 340

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2006 By Steven G. Brint
EDUCATION

Schools and Societies

The book is distinguished from others in the field by its breadth of coverage, compelling institutional history, and lively prose style. It opens with a chapter on schooling as a social institution.

Author: Steven Brint

Publisher:

ISBN: 1503624994

Category: EDUCATION

Page: 360

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Schools and Societies provides a synthesis of key issues in the sociology of education, focusing on American schools while offering a global, comparative context. Already a standard text in its first edition, this fully revised and updated second edition offers a broader sweep and stronger theoretical foundation, and takes into consideration key developments in education policy and scholarship since the late 1990s. The book is distinguished from others in the field by its breadth of coverage, compelling institutional history, and lively prose style. It opens with a chapter on schooling as a social institution. Subsequent chapters examine and compare schooling in industrialized and developing countries, and discuss the major purposes of schooling: transmitting culture, socializing young people, and sorting youth for class and occupations. Materials from different educational systems are interwoven throughout the book. The concluding chapter looks at school reform efforts and the future possibilities of schooling.
2022 By Steven Brint
Education

Schools and Society A Sociological Approach to Education

Undergraduate students of the sociology of education, education and society and education studies.

Author: Jeanne H. Ballantine

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 9781452275833

Category: Education

Page: 504

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Undergraduate students of the sociology of education, education and society and education studies.
2014-02-21 By Jeanne H. Ballantine
Education

The Changing Role of Schools in Asian Societies

Schools for the Knowledge Society Kerry J. Kennedy, John Chi-Kin Lee. The introduction of SEM implies that in a school the principal, vice principal and heads of department should adopt systems of thinking and work as a team with a ...

Author: Kerry J. Kennedy

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781134127306

Category: Education

Page: 240

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Walk into a classroom in Tokyo, New York, London or Rotterdam, and the similarities in structure, activity, purpose and style will outweigh differences in language, dress and ethnic characteristics. Learning is regulated and rationed, teaching is a process or one-way transmission of knowledge, students need to be docile and conformist, assessment needs to sift and sort the bright from the not-so-bright, and rewards will be given to those who successfully negotiate this regime. But are these the kinds of places that can meet the needs of the ‘net generation’? The Changing Role of Schools in Asian Societies is concerned with the debate about the nature of modern schooling in Asia. Traditionally schools are historical constructions reflecting the social, economic and political needs of the societies that invest in them. As Asia faces the challenges posed by the ‘knowledge economy’, its schools have taken on a new and quite different importance. This informative book outlines the broad policy contexts in which these transformations are taking place and the practical strategies that are needed to meet this objective. The authors argue that the future of Asian societies depends on a transformation that requires a fundamental restructuring of schools as we know them while maintaining their long-held cultural values. This valuable insight: provides an overview of educational issues in Asian societies establishes a broad theoretical framework in which these issues can be understood contextualizes issues by providing country case studies acknowledges the important role of culture influencing educational priorities. It should be of interest to all those working in education policy and comparative education.
2007-12-05 By Kerry J. Kennedy
Education

Faith Schools and Society

adequately the specific values underpinning a particular school's culture, as well as provide insights into the values ... The political, economic, educational and legal conduct of societies is all unavoidably transacted by means of the ...

Author: Jo Cairns

Publisher: A&C Black

ISBN: 9781441125057

Category: Education

Page: 284

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- Do faith schools have a place in a plural society? - Which types of school contribute most effectively to a plural society? This fascinating monograph seeks to answer these questions and more by exploring the fit between personal, spiritual and academic goals in contemporary educational experience and individual school cultures. Jo Cairns, a well-respected authority on faith schools, argues that educational ideology in plural societies has to find a way of recognizing and responding to the 'predicament' of pluralism as it is experienced by individuals and communities. This provocative and challenging book will undoubtedly stimulate debate among educationists across the world.
2011-10-20 By Jo Cairns
Education

Society Schools and Progress in Eastern Europe

In the schools, the Pioneer organizations run an enormous variety of circles, clubs and societies—arts and crafts, hobbies, nature study, choirs and orchestras, aeromodelling, stamp collecting, amateur dramatics, radio, photography, ...

Author: Nigel Grant

Publisher: Elsevier

ISBN: 9781483161174

Category: Education

Page: 380

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Society, Schools and Progress in Eastern Europe presents a comprehensive survey of a whole culture, showing the interpretation of its government, technology, religion, social relationships, and arts. This book describes the school system, administration, family influences, and background social forces. Organized into two parts encompassing eight chapters, this book begins with an overview of the influence of Soviet educational policies and the communist education in the schools of Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia. This text then examines the factor that raises a number of educational problems in rural areas in Eastern Europe. Other chapters consider the significant role of agriculture in many of the Eastern European countries that affects education in other ways too. This book discusses as well the educational implications of industrial development. The final chapter deals with the educational system in Albania. This book is a valuable resource for students of sociology, government and politics, as well as education.
2014-05-17 By Nigel Grant
Cultural pluralism

Plural Societies

Were cultural pluralism to be recognized as the moral imperative of cultural democracy then more public schools might be oriented to cooperate with their local communities (basically: local parents but also local business and industry, ...

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ISBN: UIUC:30112042155546

Category: Cultural pluralism

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Society Schools and Progress in the West Indies

West Indian society it is necessary—even though it is not sufficient— to remember pre-emancipation society, a society whose death started in 1833, and which for a long time had been characterized as barbarian.

Author: John J. Figueroa

Publisher: Elsevier

ISBN: 9781483139661

Category: Social Science

Page: 230

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Society, Schools and Progress in the West Indies
2016-06-06 By John J. Figueroa
Education

Teaching Schools and Society

Further , the school's relationship to the wider society , particularly to its economic and political institutions , is untangled . In doing so , the need for practitioners to engage in critical reflection on their roles and practices ...

Author: Evelina Orteza y Miranda

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 1850006881

Category: Education

Page: 436

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This selection of essays focuses on schools - their tasks, processes and context by examining the aims of schooling as a primary educational institution, the means, particularly teaching-learning processes in the classrooms, and the environment, classroom, school and societal affecting schooling.
1990 By Evelina Orteza y Miranda

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