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EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION
Critical Social Thought Series
Sociology of Education
Series Editor: Michael W. Apple
NEW
Black Literate Lives
Hidden Markets
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
The New Education Privatization
Maisha T. Fisher, Emory University, USA
Patricia Burch, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
This book offers an innovative approach to understanding the multi-dimensional perspectives of Black literate lives in the US It demonstrates the ways that ”minority” groups keep their practices alive inside and outside of educational institutions, even when these groups are oppressed. 2008: 6 x 9: 200pp Hb: 978-0-415-95864-6: $125.00 Pb: 978-0-415-95865-3: $36.95 eBook: 978-0-203-89045-5 www.routledge.com/9780415958653
Critical Perspectives on bell hooks Edited by Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, Oklahoma University, USA and George Yancy, Duquesne University, USAt Although bell hooks has long challenged the dominant paradigms of race, class, and gender, there has never been a comprehensive book critically reflecting upon this seminal scholar’s body of work. Her written works aim to transgress and disrupt those codes that exclude others as intellectually mediocre, and hooks’ challenge to various hegemonic practices has heavily influenced scholars in numerous areas of inquiry. This important resource thematically examines hooks’ works across various disciplinary divides, including her critique on educational theory and practice, theorization of racial construction, dynamics of gender, and spirituality and love as correctives in postmodern life. Ultimately, this book offers a fresh perspective for scholars and students wanting to engage in the prominent work of bell hooks, and makes available to its readers the full significance of her work. Compelling and unprecedented, Critical Perspectives on bell hooks is a must-read for scholars, professors, and students interested in issues of race, class, and gender.
Across the US, test publishers, software companies, and research firms are swarming to take advantage of the revenues made available by the No Child Left Behind Act. In effect, the education industry has assumed a central place in the day-to-day governance and administration of public schools a trend that has gone largely unnoticed by policymakers or the press until now. Drawing on analytic tools, Hidden Markets examines specific domains that the education industry has had particular influence on home schooling, remedial instruction, management consulting, test development, data management, and staff development. Patricia Burch’s analysis demonstrates that only when we subject the education industry to systematic and in-depth critical analysis can we begin to demand more corporate accountability and organize to halt the slide of education funds into the market. January 2009: 6 x 9: 200pp Hb: 978-0-415-95566-9: $130.00 Pb: 978-0-415-95567-6: $36.95 eBook: 978-0-203-88394-5 www.routledge.com/9780415955676
Rightist Multiculturalism
The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education Edited by Michael W. Apple, University of Wisconsin, USA, Stephen J. Ball, University of London, UK and Luis Armando Gandin, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 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 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 twentyfive 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
Core Lessons on Neoconservative School Reform
•social processes and practices
Kristen L. Buras, Emory University, USA
•inequalities and resistances.
In this groundbreaking book, Kristen L. Buras provides the first detailed, critical examination of the Core Knowledge movement and explores the history and cultural politics underlying neoconservative initiatives in education.
This 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. December 2009: 6-3/4 x 9-3/4: 472pp Hb: 978-0-415-48663-7: $170.00 eBook: 978-0-203-86370-1 www.routledge.com/9780415486637
2008: 6 x 9: 240pp Hb: 978-0-415-96264-3: $140.00 Pb: 978-0-415-96265-0: $34.95 eBook: 978-0-203-93186-8 www.routledge.com/9780415962650
February 2009: 6 x 9: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-98980-0: $140.00 Pb: 978-0-415-98981-7: $38.95 eBook: 978-0-203-88150-7 www.routledge.com/9780415989817
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