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Education and training / Tim Heaton and Tony Lawson.

By: Heaton, Tim.
Contributor(s): Lawson, Tony.
Series: Skills-based sociology.Publisher: Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1996Description: ix, 195 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0333646126.Subject(s): Academic achievement -- Great Britain -- Evaluation | Education -- Great Britain -- Aims and objectives | Educational sociology -- Great BritainDDC classification: 370.190941
Contents:
Acknowledgements. - Ch. 1. Introduction. - Ch. 2. Educational policy and systems in Britain : the background to changes in the 1980s and 1990s. - Ch. 3. Changes in educational policy and systems in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s. - Ch. 4. Explaining class differences in educational achievement. - Ch. 5. Explaining gender differences in educational achievement. - Ch. 6. Explaining ethnic differences in educational achievement. - Ch. 7. Functionalist explainations of the role of education and training. - Ch. 8. Conflict explanations of the role of education and training. - References. - Author Index. - Subject Index.
Summary: This book is a lively and supportive text that offers comprehensive coverage of this important and popular topic in sociology. It gives due recognition to significant recent theoretical debates, such as those centring on the New Right and postmodernism, and it incorporates recent research findings. Laced with a wide variety of exercises, its active-learning approach offers the beginning student ample scope both to exercise their understanding of the subject and evaluation that they need to demonstrate in examinations. This book integrates helpful practical advice on examination questions into its clear and accessible structure in a systematic way, making this an invaluable guide and resource for home as well as classroom use. - Back cover.
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Acknowledgements. - Ch. 1. Introduction. - Ch. 2. Educational policy and systems in Britain : the background to changes in the 1980s and 1990s. - Ch. 3. Changes in educational policy and systems in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s. - Ch. 4. Explaining class differences in educational achievement. - Ch. 5. Explaining gender differences in educational achievement. - Ch. 6. Explaining ethnic differences in educational achievement. - Ch. 7. Functionalist explainations of the role of education and training. - Ch. 8. Conflict explanations of the role of education and training. - References. - Author Index. - Subject Index.

This book is a lively and supportive text that offers comprehensive coverage of this important and popular topic in sociology. It gives due recognition to significant recent theoretical debates, such as those centring on the New Right and postmodernism, and it incorporates recent research findings. Laced with a wide variety of exercises, its active-learning approach offers the beginning student ample scope both to exercise their understanding of the subject and evaluation that they need to demonstrate in examinations. This book integrates helpful practical advice on examination questions into its clear and accessible structure in a systematic way, making this an invaluable guide and resource for home as well as classroom use. - Back cover.

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