This text continues to offer cutting-edge analysis of contemporary schooling in America from a critical perspective. Provides up-to-the-minute critical analysis of the way schools really work that takes into account both historical influences and current critical theory. Includes extensive coverage of race, class, and gender and their roles in relation to power dynamics in todayOs classrooms. Wide ranging content draws on social theory as well as the sociology of organizations, of work and the professions, and of knowledge. Includes new short case studies of students' experiences, and chapter questions and illustrative boxes containing accounts from students, teachers and administrators.
- ISBN10 0205456200
- ISBN13 9780205456208
- Publish Date 28 November 2009 (first published 23 February 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 December 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 4th edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 416
- Language English