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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “diane reay”
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  • Miseducation

    Inequality, Education and the Working Classes

    by Diane Reay ...
    Series series 21st Century Standpoints
    Education is supposed to level the playing field, and yet for many working-class children inequalities in the classroom in fact deepen the divide. Students from disadvantaged backgrounds are almost four times more likely to be excluded from school than their wealthier peers and many are struggling in an educational environment increasingly concerned with discipline. In this substantially revised ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Bourdieu and Education

    Edited by Diane Reay ...
    Series series Education and Social Theory
    Specially selected by Diane Reay, this is a collection of innovative and thought-provoking recently published papers that 'use' Bourdieu to put theory into practice in order to understand and analyse educational problems. Bourdieu's work is renowned for its focus on inequalities and its centering of social justice.The contributions utilise a wide range of diverse concepts in Bourdieu's theoretical ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Education and Social Mobility

    Edited by Carol Vincent, Diane Reay, Phillip Brown ...
    The study of education and social mobility has been a key area of sociological research since the 1950s. The importance of this research derives from the systematic analysis of functionalist theories of industrialism. Functionalist theories assume that the complementary demands of efficiency and justice result in more ‘meritocratic’ societies, characterized by high rates of social mobility. Much ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Theorizing Social Class and Education

    Edited by Diane Reay, Carol Vincent ...
    Theorizing Social Class and Education presents a selection of writing on class analysis within sociology of education as it has evolved over the last decade both in the UK, and internationally. Moving from a narrow focus on class position and categorisation, to a much broader view on behaviours, attitudes, identities and practices, the contributors explore and theorize the ways in which particular ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education

    Edited by Miriam David, Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Gill Crozier, Pauline Davis, Hubert Ertl, Alison Fuller, Geoff Hayward, Sue Heath, Chris Hockings, Gareth Parry, Diane Reay, Anna Vignoles, Julian Williams ...
    Series series Improving Learning
    Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education presents a strong and coherent rationale for improving learning for diverse students from a range of socio-economic, ethnic/racial and gender backgrounds within higher education, and for adults across the life course.Edited by Miriam David, the Associate Director of the ESRC’s highly successful Teaching and Learning Research ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Understanding Inequality

    The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender

    by Barbara A. Arrighi, Judi Addelston, Derrick Bell, Karen Blumenthal, Judith Butler, Jane Jerome Camhi, William J. Chamblis, Marc Cooper, Sally Ann Davies-Netzley, Simone de Beauvoir, G William Domhoff, Susan J. Douglas, Wright Dziech, Susan Estrich, Lawrence Otis Graham, Billie Michelle Fine, Judith Lorber, Arturo Madrid, Julia Marusza, Fatema Mernissi, John Stuart Mill, Timothy Nonn, Katha Pollitt, Mary F. Rogers, Kathleen Rowe, Leslie Marmon Silko, Laureen Snider, Haya Stier, Deborah Tannen, Marta Tienda, Stephen Worchel, Richard L. Zweigenhaft, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Walda Katz-Fishman, Michael Kimmel, Charles Lemert, Diane Reay, Edward H. Thompson,Jr., Lois Weis ...
    As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Who’s Afraid of Political Education?

    The Challenge to Teach Civic Competence and Democratic Participation

    by Titus Alexander, Tony Breslin, Bryony Hoskins, Lee Jerome, Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, David Kerr, Dina Kiwan, Kathleen Knight Abowitz, Liz Moorse, Murray Print, Diane Reay, Edda Sant, Kathleen Sellers, Kalbir Shukra, Barrett Smith, Sarah M. Stitzlein ...
    Democracy should enable citizens to play an informed role in determining how power is exercised for their common wellbeing, but this only works if people have the understanding, skills and confidence to engage effectively in public affairs. Otherwise, any voting system can be subverted to serve the interests of propagandists and demagogues.This book brings together leading experts on learning for ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Social Divisions

    Inequality and Diversity in Britain

    by Catherine Maclean, Graham Crow, Michael Rosie, David Mccrone, Steph Lawler, Clare Bambra, David Saltiel, Ruth Garbutt, Liz Frost, Stephen Hunt, Stevi Jackson, Sue Scott, Robert Holton, Daniel Smith, Lucinda Platt, Tim Strangleman, Diane Reay, John Solomos, Pamela Abbott, John Scott ...
    Revised, restructured and updated to reflect the latest data and debates, this new edition of the widely used, classic textbook offers students an accessible account of the major social divisions that structure social life. Written by internationally known sociologists and experts, the book:• addresses a wide range of social divisions and inequalities in novel ways, with added chapters on ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

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  • Childhood, Culture and Society

    In a Global Context

    by Michael Wyness ...
    Written with clarity and thoroughly argued, Wyness confirms his place as one of the key authors within contemporary social science writing on children and childhood. A formidable exploration of the nature of contemporary childhood in globally disparate regions.′ - Pia Christensen, Professor of Anthropology and Childhood Studies, University of Leeds, UKA multifaceted and extensive analysis of the ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Career Guidance for Social Justice

    Contesting Neoliberalism

    Edited by Tristram Hooley, Ronald Sultana, Rie Thomsen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
    This edited collection examines the intersections between career guidance, social justice and neo-liberalism. Contributors offer an original and global discussion of the role of career guidance in the struggle for social justice and evaluate the field from a diverse range of theoretical positions. Through a series of chapters that positions career guidance within a neoliberal context and presents ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Education, Globalisation and New Times

    21 Years of the Journal of Education Policy

    Edited by Stephen J. Ball, Ivor F. Goodson, Meg Maguire ...
    Series series Education Heritage
    Education, Globalisation and New Times comprises a selection of the most influential papers published over the twenty-one years of the Journal of Education Policy. Written by many of the leading scholars in the field, these seminal papers cover a variety of subjects, sectors and levels of education, focused around the following major themes:education, globalisation and new timespolicy theory and ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning

    Edited by Peter Jarvis ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks of Education
    As lifelong learning grows in popularity, few comprehensive pictures of the phenomenon have emerged. The Routledge International Handbook of Lifelong Learning provides a disciplined and complete overview of lifelong learning internationally.The theoretical structure puts the learner at the centre and the book emanates from there, pointing to the social context beyond the learner.Up-to-the-minute ... Read more

    $152.99 CAD