ISBN:
9781610442824
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Social organization of schooling
DDC:
306.43/2
Keywords:
Educational sociology
;
School management and organization
;
Schools Sociological aspects
;
Schools ; United States ; Sociological aspects
;
Educational sociology
;
School management and organization ; United States
;
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Abstract:
"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 concerned with the future of America's children."--Jacket
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : the social organization of schools / Barbara Schneider --PART 1 : the relationship between sociology and the study of educationA 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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