Description: 1. Introduction: The Social Transformation of Education and SocietyPart One: Education, Culture, and Society2. The Forms of Capital3. Class and Pedagogies: Visible and Invisible4. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital5. The Post-Modern Condition6. Crossing the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism7. Having an Postmodernist Turn or Postmodernist Angst: A Disorder Experienced by an Author Who is Not Yet Dead or Even Close to It8. Feminisms and Education Gaby WeinerPart Two: Education, Global Economy, and Labour Market9. Why the Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer10. Education, Globalization, and Economic Development11. The New Knowledge Work12. Education, Skill Formation, and Economic Development: The Singaporean Approach13. Human Capital Concepts14. The Gendering of Skill and Vocationalism in Twentieth-Century Australian Education15. Can Education Do It Alone?Part Three: The State and the Restructuring of Teachers' Work16. Education and the Role of the State: Devolution and Control Post-Picot17. The Global Economy, the State, and the Politics of Education18. Educational Achievement in Centralized and Decentralized Systems19. On the Changing Relationships Between the State, Civil Society, and Changing Notions of Teacher Professionalism20. Changing Notions of Educational Management and Leadership21. Assessment, Accountability, and Standards Using Assessment to Control the Reform of Schooling22. Restructuring Schools for Student Success23. Restructuring Restructuring: Postmodernity and the Prospects for Educational ChangePart Four: Politics, Markets, and School Effectiveness24. Politics, Markets, and the Organization of Schools25. Education, Democracy, and the Economy26. The 'Third Wave': Education and the Ideology of Parentocracy27. Circuits of Schooling: A Sociological Exploration of Parental Choice of School in Social Class Contexts28. African-American Students' View of School Choice29. Choice, Competition, and Segregation: An Empirical Analysis of A New Zealand Secondary School Market, 1990-9330. [Ap]parent Involvement: Reflections on Parents, Power, and Urban Public Schools31. Can Effective Schools Compensate for Society?Part Five: Knowledge, Curriculum, and Cultural Politics32. Introduction: Our Virtue33. The New Cultural Politics of Difference34. On Race and Voice: Challenges for Liberal Education in the 1990s35. The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children36. What Postmodernists Forget: Cultural Capital and Official Knowledge37. The Big Picture: Masculinities in Recent World History38. Is the Future Female? Female Success, Male Disadvantage, and Changing Gender Patterns in EducationPart Six: Meritocracy and Social Exclusion39. Trends in Access and Equity in Higher Education: Britain in International Perspective40. Education and Occupational Attainments: The Impact of Ethnic Origins41. Problems of 'Meritocracy'42. Equalization and Improvement: Some Effects of Comprehensive Reorganization in Scotland43. Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital44. The Politics of Culture: Understanding Local Political Resistance to Detracking in Racially Mixed Schools45. Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion: Some Observations on Recent Trends in Education, Employment, and the Labour Market46. Studying Inner-City Social Dislocations: The Challenge of Public Agenda Research47. Racial Stratification and Education in the United States: Why Inequality Persists48. The Bell Curve Wars49. The Family and Social Justice

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