First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This work considers the impact of social forces such as industrialization, urbanization, immigration and cultural conflict on the development of schools and other educational institutions.
The book considers the impact of social forces, such as industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and cultural conflict on the development of schools and other educational institutions.
This text undertakes a systematic sociological analysis of contemporary educational policy and practice. In doing so it charts the substantial and significant changes that education systems have undergone over recent...
Education and Social Change provides a basic introduction to educational studies, with a viewpoint for decision. This book discusses the increasing number of educational influences at work outside the schools and colleges.
... Rotberg, 2001; Zhou & Bankston, 1994). Of course, this also can work in the opposite direction. There have been groups that have shunned the schools, discouraging their children from attendance. Italian immigrants, for instance, ...
This distinctive collection covers the history of entertainment-education, its applications in the United States and throughout the world, the multiple communication theories that bear on E-E, and a range of research methods for studying ...
Grounded in practice with examples integrated throughout the text, Music Education for Social Change is an imperative and urgent consideration of what may be possible through music and music education.
Also included here are three lectures on the social basis of education, a lecture to public school teachers, and a lecture to the workers of the Waldorf Astoria Cigarette Company, after which they asked him to form a school for their ...
This book introduces students to education as a vehicle for social change.
Education and Social Change: Connecting Local and Global Perspectives