Culture and learning
Subtitle: access and opportunity in the classroom
By: edited by Mark Olssen.
Contributors: Olssen, Mark.
Series: International perspectives on curriculum
Publisher: Information Age Pub.; Information Age Publishing
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Greenwich, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Critical pedagogy; Academic achievement -- Social aspects; Educational sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Mark Olssen; title: Human learning in social context / Peter Jarvis; title: Bourdieu in the classroom / Michael Grenfell; title: Beyond reproduction theory : a multi-level explanation of inequality/difference in education / Roy Nash; title: Can the arbitrary and the necessary be reconciled?: scientific realism and the school curriculum / Roy Nash; title: Basil Bernstein: social divisions and cultural transmission / Michael Erben and Hilary Dickinson; title: Language, discourse, literacy: stability, territory, and transformation / Paul Dowling; title: ICT in the classroom: the pedagogical challenge of respatialisation and reregulation / Susan Robertson ... [et al.]; title: Dilemmas in designing problems in "realistic" school mathematics: a sociological overview and some research findings / Barry Cooper; title: System-wide reform: the role of professional development for instructional improvement / Richard Harker and John O'Neill; title: The impact of school composition: new insights into an enduring problem / Martin Thrupp; title: Knowledge and the curriculum in the sociology of education: towards a reconceptualization / Rob Moore and Michael Young; title: The sociology of IQ: enhancing cognitive skills / James R. Flynn; title: Ability, selection, and institutional racism in schools / David Gillborn; title: Race and the politics of educational reform / Michael W. Apple; title: Poverty, learning opportunities, and the social construction of collective intelligence / Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder; title: Don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger: discourses, dialectics, and deficits / Keith Sullivan; title: Gender differences in educational achievement: a socio-cultural analysis / Patricia Murphy and Gabrielle Ivinson; title: Educational trauma and "at-risk" students / Keith Sullivan.