Contemporary Debates in the Sociology of Education

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Contemporary Debates in the Sociology of Education: An Introduction....Pages 1-18
Globalisation and Sociology of Education Policy: The Case of PISA....Pages 19-38
Education Policy, Human Rights, Citizenship and Cohesion....Pages 39-56
School Type and Inequality....Pages 57-75
We Know What They Earn, But What Do They Learn? A Critique of Lifelong Learning through the Lens of Workplace Learning at the Bottom of the Service Sector....Pages 76-92
In a Class of Their Own: How Working-Class Students Experience University....Pages 93-111
Examining the (Em)Bodied Boundaries of High School Locker Rooms....Pages 112-130
Adolescent and Disabled or Adolescence Disabled? Education and the Construction of Gendered Identities among Adolescents with Intellectual Disability....Pages 131-148
It’s How You Look or What You Like: Gender Harassment at School and Its Association with Student Adjustment....Pages 149-167
What Is So Liberal about Neo-Liberalism? Schooling, Law and Limitations of Race-Neutral Reforms....Pages 168-184
Fear In and About Education....Pages 185-201
Choosing Subjects: Sociological Approaches to Young Women’s Subject Choices....Pages 202-217
Towards a Sociology of Education and Technology....Pages 218-235
Back Matter....Pages 237-238