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1 The Transformation of Education and Society: An Introduction |
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PART ONE EDUCATION, CULTURE, AND SOCIETY |
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3 Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible |
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4 Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital |
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5 The Post-Modern Condition |
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6 Crossing the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism |
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113 | (18) |
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7 Having a Postmodernist Turn or Postmodernist Angst: A Disorder Experienced by an Author Who is Not Yet Dead or Even Close to It |
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131 | (13) |
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8 Feminisms and Education |
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144 | (11) |
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PART TWO EDUCATION, THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, AND THE LABOUR MARKET |
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156 | (7) |
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9 Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer |
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163 | (9) |
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10 Education, Globalization, and Economic Development |
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172 | (21) |
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11 The New Knowledge Work |
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193 | (14) |
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12 Education, Skill Formation, and Economic Development: The Singaporean Approach |
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207 | (12) |
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13 Human Capital Concepts |
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219 | (5) |
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14 The Gendering of Skill and Vocationalism in Twentieth-Century Australian Education |
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224 | (16) |
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15 Can Education Do It Alone? |
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240 | (13) |
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PART THREE THE STATE AND THE RESTRUCTURING OF TEACHERS' WORK |
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254 | (9) |
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16 Education and the Role of the State: Devolution and Control Post-Picot |
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263 | (10) |
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17 The State and the Governance of Education: An Analysis of the Restructuring of the State-Education Relationship |
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273 | (10) |
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18 Educational Achievement in Centralized and Decentralized Systems |
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283 | (16) |
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19 Marketization, the State, and the Re-Formation of the Teaching Profession |
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299 | (12) |
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20 Politics, Markets, and Democratic Schools: On the Transformation of School Leadership |
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311 | (9) |
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21 Assessment, Accountability, and Standards: Using Assessment to Control the Reform of Schooling |
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320 | (12) |
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22 Restructuring Schools for Student Success |
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332 | (6) |
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23 Restructuring Restructuring: Postmodernity and the Prospects for Educational Change |
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338 | (17) |
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PART FOUR POLITICS, MARKETS, AND SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS |
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355 | (134) |
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24 Politics, Markets, and the Organization of Schools |
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363 | (19) |
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25 Education, Democracy, and the Economy |
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26 The `Third Wave': Education and the Ideology of Parentocracy |
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393 | (16) |
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27 Circuits of Schooling: A Sociological Exploration of Parental Choice of School in Social-Class Contexts |
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409 | (13) |
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28 African-American Students' View of School Choice |
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29 Choice, Competition, and Segregation: An Empirical Analysis of A New Zealand Secondary School Market, 1990-93 |
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439 | (21) |
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30 [Ap]parent Involvement: Reflections on Parents, Power, and Urban Public Schools |
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460 | (16) |
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31 Can Effective Schools Compensate for Society? |
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476 | (13) |
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PART FIVE KNOWLEDGE, CURRICULUM, AND CULTURAL POLITICS |
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32 Introduction: Our Virtue |
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498 | (11) |
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33 The New Cultural Politics of Difference |
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509 | (11) |
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34 Multiculturalism and the Postmodern Critique: Toward a Pedagogy of Resistance and Transformation |
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520 | (21) |
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35 Nonsynchrony and Social Difference: An Alternative to Current Radical Accounts of Race and Schooling |
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541 | (16) |
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36 On Race and Voice: Challenges for Liberal Education in the 1990s |
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557 | (15) |
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37 Feminist Scholarship as a Vocation |
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572 | (10) |
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38 The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children |
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39 What Postmodernists Forget: Cultural Capital and Official Knowledge |
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595 | (10) |
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40 The Big Picture: Masculinities in Recent World History |
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605 | (15) |
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41 Is the Future Female? Female Success, Male Disadvantage, and Changing Gender Patterns in Education |
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620 | (11) |
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PART SIX MERITOCRACY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION |
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42 Trends in Access and Equity in Higher Education: Britain in International Perspective |
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638 | (8) |
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43 Education and Occupational Attainments: The Impact of Ethnic Origins |
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646 | (17) |
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44 Problems of `Meritocracy' |
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663 | (20) |
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45 Equalization and Improvement: Some Effects of Comprehensive Reorganization in Scotland |
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683 | (20) |
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46 Social-Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital |
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703 | (15) |
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47 The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools |
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718 | (18) |
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48 Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: Some Observations on Recent Trends in Education, Employment, and the Labour Market |
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49 Studying Inner-City Social Dislocations: The Challenge of Public Agenda Research |
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750 | (15) |
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50 Racial Stratification and Education in the United States: Why Inequality Persists |
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765 | (14) |
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51 Introduction to The Bell Curve Wars |
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779 | (5) |
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52 The Family and Social Justice |
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Further Reading |
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Index |
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