"The papers which appear in this collection originate from presentations made by the authors at the Sociology of Education Conference held in January 1980 at Westhill College, Birmingham"--Pref.
"Politics and education series"--Jacket.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Curricular form and the logic of technical control / Michael Apple -- Schooling and the reproduction of class and gender relations / Madeleine MacDonald -- Contradiction and reproduction in educational theory / Herbert Gintis and Samuel Bowles -- Schooling for change / Tony Edwards -- The limits of curricular experience / Peter Musgrave -- Contradiction and change in educational practices / Janet Strivens -- Teacher ideologies and pupil disaffection / Rosemary Chessum -- Locations of learning and ideologies of education / Roland Meighan and Christine Brown -- Curricula are social processes / Gary Easthope -- Towards a new socialist sociology of education / David Reynolds and Mike Sullivan.
