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 years. The first rests on a clear articulation by the state of its requirements of education. The second promotes at least the appearance of greater autonomy on the part of educational institutions in the delivery of those requirements. The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education examines the ways in which the sociology of education has responded to these two political agendas, addressing a range of issues which cover three key areas:
perspectives and theories
social processes and practices
inequalities and resistances.
The book strongly communicates the vibrancy and diversity of the sociology of education and the nature of 'sociological work' in this field. It will be a primary resource for teachers, as well as a title of major interest to practising sociologists of education.
Part One: Perspectives and Theories 1. 'Spatializing' the Sociology of Education 2. Foucault and Education3. Education and Critical Race Theory4. The Ethics of National Hospitality and Globally Mobile Researchers5. Towards a Sociology of the Global Teacher6. Codes, Pedagogy and Knowledge7. Social Democracy, Complexity and Education8. The 'New' Connectivities of Digital Education9. A Cheese-slicer by any Other Name? Shredding the Sociology of Inclusion10. The Sociology of Mothering11. Rationalisation, Disenchantment and Re-enchantment12. Recognizing the Subjects of EducationPart Two: Social Processes and Practices 13. Doing the Work of God14. New States, New Governance and New Education Policy15. Towards a Sociology of Pedagogies16. Families, Values, and Class Relations17. Popular Culture and the Sociology of Education18. Schooling the Body in a Performative Culture19. Tracking and Inequality20. Economic Globalisation, Skill Formation and the Consequences for Higher Education21. Education and the Right to the City22. A Revisited Theme - Middle Classes and the School23. Governing without Governing24. The University in the Twenty-First CenturyPart Three: Inequalities and Resistances 25. The Indian Middle Classes and Educational Advantage26. Equality and Social Justice27. Educational Organizations and Gender in Times of Uncertainty28. Bringing Bourdieu to 'Widening Participation' Policies in Higher Education29. The Sociology of Elite Education30. The Dialogic Sociology of the Learning Communities31. The Democratization of Governance in the Citizen School Project32. Syncretism and Hybridity33. Dilemmas of Race-Rememory Buried Alive34. Momentum and Melancholia35. Sociology, Social Class and Education36. Interfaces Between the Sociology of Education and the Studies about Youth in Brazil37. Social Class and Schooling
