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Schools and Societies



January 1998 | 368 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
In Schools and Societies the author demonstrates that more than any other major institution, schooling and schools are political, and virtually everyone has opinions to voice and interests to promote. Steven Brint musters a wealth of comparative material to show how schooling around the world is shaped by social forces even as it tries to shape the societies of the future.

 
Schools as Social Institutions
 
Schooling in the Industrialized World
 
Schooling in the Developing World
 
Schools and the Transmission of Knowledge
 
Schools and Socialization
 
Schools and Social Selection
Opportunity

 
 
Schools and Social Selection
Inequality

 
 
Teaching and Learning in Comparative Perspective
 
School Reform and the Possibilities of Schooling

Steven Brint

Steven Brint, (Ph.D. Harvard University), is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of In An Age of Experts: The Changing Role of Professionals in Politics and Public Life (Princeton University Press, 1994). He is also co-author with Jerome Karabel of The Diverted Dream: Community Colleges and the Promise of Educational Opportunity in America, 1900-1980 (Oxford University Press, 1989), which won the American Educational Research Association's "distinguished publication" award in 1991. More About Author

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ISBN: 9780803990593
$142.00