International Encyclopedia of Sociology of Education (Resources in Education Series)
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: October 1, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 930
ISBN-13: 9780080429908
First sentence: Up to three decades ago, it was said that what was then called educational sociology should not be allowed to perpetuate itself (Conant 1963, cited in Banks 1971 p. 2), that it was "ivory tower nonsense" (Hansen 1967), and that it was characterized by the "sterility of the questions that it asked" (Corwin 1965).