The Routledge international handbook of the sociology of education / edited by Michael W. Apple, Stephen J. Ball and Luis Armando Gandin.

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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Mapping the sociology of education: social context, power and knowledge; Part 1 Perspectives and theories; 1 'Spatializing' the sociology of education: Stand-points, entry-points, vantage-points; 2 Foucault and education; 3 Education and critical race theory; 4 The ethics of national hospitality and globally mobile researchers; 5 Towards a sociology of the global teacher; 6 Codes, pedagogy and knowledge: Advances in Bernsteinian sociology of education

7 Social democracy, complexity and education: Sociological perspectives from welfare liberalism8 The 'new' connectivities of digital education; 9 A cheese-slicer by any other name? Shredding the sociology of inclusion; 10 The sociology of mothering; 11 Rationalisation, disenchantment and re-enchantment: Engaging with Weber's sociology of modernity; 12 Recognizing the subjects of education: Engagements with Judith Butler; Part 2 Social processes and practices; 13 Doing the work of God: Home schooling and gendered labor; 14 New states, new governance and new education policy

15 Towards a sociology of pedagogies16 Families, values, and class relations: The politics of alternative certification; 17 Popular culture and the sociology of education; 18 Schooling the body in a performative culture; 19 Tracking and inequality: New directions for research and practice; 20 Economic globalisation, skill formation and the consequences for higher education; 21 Education and the right to the city: The intersection of urban policies, education, and poverty; 22 A revisited theme - middle classes and the school

23 Governing without governing: The formation of a European educational space24 The university in the twenty-first century: Toward a democratic and emancipatory university reform; Part 3 Inequalities and resistances; 25 The Indian middle classes and educational advantage: Family strategies and practices; 26 Equality and social justice: The university as a site of struggle; 27 Educational organizations and gender in times of uncertainty; 28 Bringing Bourdieu to 'widening participation' policies in higher education: A UK case analysis; 29 The sociology of elite education

30 The dialogic sociology of the learning communities31 The democratization of governance in the Citizen School project: Building a new notion of accountability in education; 32 Syncretism and hybridity: Schooling, language, and race and students from non-dominant communities; 33 Dilemmas of race-rememory buried alive: Popular education, nation, and diaspora in critical education; 34 Momentum and melancholia: Women in higher education internationally; 35 Sociology, social class and education; 36 Interfaces between the sociology of education and the studies about youth in Brazil

37 Social class and schooling

This collection brings together many of the world's leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. The thirty-seven newly commissioned chapters draw upon theory and research to provide new accounts of contemporary educational processes, global trends, and changing and enduring forms of social conflict and social inequality. The research, conducted by leading international scholars in the field, indicates that two complexly interrelated agendas are discernible in the heat and noise of educational change over the past twenty-five

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