Research Catalog

Title

The social organization of schooling / Larry V. Hedges and Barbara Schneider, editors.

Publication

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hedges, Larry V.
• Schneider, Barbara L.

Description

xii, 366 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Employing a variety of analytical methods, The Social Organization of Schooling provides a sound understanding of the social mechanisms at work in our educational system. This volume brings a fresh perspective to the many ongoing debates in education policy and is essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of America's children."--Jacket.

Subject

• Schools > United States > Sociological aspects
• Educational sociology
• School management and organization > United States
• School management and organization
• Schools > Sociological aspects
• Schulsoziologie
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-355) and index.

Contents

Introduction : the social organization of schools / Barbara Schneider --PART 1 : the relationship between sociology and the study of education -- A sociological agenda for research on education / Charles E. Bidwell -- Ecosystems and the structuring of organizations / W. Richard Scott -- PART 2 : teaching as a profession -- Teaching and the competence of occupations / Robert Dreeben -- The prospects for teaching as a profession / Susan Moore Johnson -- The anomaly of ecuational organizations and the study of organizational control / Richard M. Ingersoll -- Professional community by design : building social capital through teacher professional development / Adam Gamoran, Ramona Gunter, and Tona Williams -- PART 3 : The microsociology of schools and classrooms -- The normative culture of a school and student socialization / Maureen T. Hallinan -- Why work when you can play? dynamics of formal and informal organization in classrooms / Daniel a. McFarland -- Shcool organization, curricular structure, and the distribution and effects of instruction for tenth-grade science / Robert A. Petrin -- Subgroups as meso-level entities in the social organization of schools / Kenneth A. Frank and Yong Zhao -- PART 4 : change in social organizations -- The cross-national context of the gender gap in math and science / Catherine Riegle-Crumb -- Organizational coupling, control, and change : the role of higher-order models of control in educational reform / Christopher B. Swanson -- Achievement and equity / Chandra Muller and Kathryn S. Schiller -- School transition programs in organizational context : problems of recruitment, coordination, and integration / Kathryn S. Schiller -- Mobilizing community resources to reform failing schools / Lori Diane Hill.

ISBN

• 0871543400
• 9780871543400

LCCN

• 2004061462
• 9780871543400

OCLC

• ocm57124510
• 57124510
• SCSB-8907654

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library