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Routledge

Year

2014

ISBN

9781135570859

Edition

Topic

Didattica

Subtopic

Didattica generale

INDEX

Abbott vs. Burke, 673

ability

measurement components, 243

and meritocracy, 435

ability groups. See tracking

abstract attitudes, educational, 199–201

academic achievement

attitude/achievement paradox, 201

and Catholic schools, 76, 77–78, 206, 406–407

and cooperative learning, 117–118

and culture of students, 639–642

gender differences, 182–183

and home schooling, 366–367

and inequality, 242–244

and school desegregation, 70, 71

and sports participation, 626

as status determinant, 85–86

and teacher expectations, 245

and tracking, 86, 243–244, 689

urban schools, 695

See also educational productivity

Academic Revolution, The (Riesman), 8

Accelerated Schools Project (ASP), 497

acculturation, meaning of, 247

achievement level. See academic achievement; educational productivity; high achievers; low achievers

achievement motivation

African Americans, 8, 43–46

need for achievement (nAch), 43–44

research areas of, 44–46

theoretical basis, 43–44

Achievement Motive, The (McClelland et al.), 43

Adams v. Califano, 30–32

Adams v. Richardson, 143, 159, 161–162

Adarand Construction v. Pena, 31

Addams, Jane, 463

Adolescent Society, The (Coleman), 17, 262

adolescents, stereotype of, 17

adolescents and schools, 17–21

curriculum, 18–21

research needs, 21

sociological studies, 17–18

See also secondary schools

adoption studies, of IQ, 401

adult education, 23–28

growth of, 23–24, 26

historical view, 23

learner needs and characteristics, 23–24, 27

material functions of, 26

older college students, 340, 614

social function of, 26–27

sociological perspectives, 24–27

specialization in, 26

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
EDUCATION AND SOCIOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION
ADOLESCENCE AND SCHOOLS
ADULT EDUCATION
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN EDUCATION
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION
AT-RISK STUDENTS
BILINGUAL EDUCATION
BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
CLASSROOM PROCESSES
CODE THEORY, PEDAGOGIC DISCOURSE, AND SYMBOLIC CONTROL
COMMUNITY COLLEGES
CONFLICT THEORY
COOPERATIVE LEARNING IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS
CULTURAL CAPITAL
CURRICULUM
CURRICULUM HISTORY
DESEGREGATION
DESEGREGATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION
ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION
EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AND ATTAINMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT
EDUCATIONAL ATTITUDES: ABSTRACT AND CONCRETE
EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY
EDUCATIONAL REFORM AND SOCIOLOGY IN ENGLAND AND WALES
EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN THE UNITED STATES: 1980S AND 1990S
ELITES AND EDUCATIONAL REFORM
EQUALITY IN EDUCATION
ETHNICITY
ETHNOGRAPHY
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
FUNCTIONALIST THEORIES OF EDUCATION
GENDER AND EDUCATION
GENDER AND MATH EDUCATION
GENDER INEQUALITY
GENDER INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS
GENDER SOCIALIZATION AND EDUCATION: WHERE WE’VE BEEN AND WHERE WE MIGHT GO
GLOBALIZATION
HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS
HIGHER EDUCATION
HIGHER EDUCATION: INTERNATIONAL
HIGHER EDUCATION AND SOCIAL EQUALITY
HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES: ACCESS TO BY MINORITIES
HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES: LATINOS
HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGES
HOME SCHOOLING: CONTEMPORARY
HOMELESS CHILDREN AND YOUTH
HUMAN CAPITAL THEORY
IDEOLOGY AND CURRICULUM
IMPERIALISM AND EDUCATION
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION AND EDUCATION CRISES: CROSS-NATIONAL STUDIES OF SCHOOL OUTCOMES
IQ
LONGITUDINAL STUDIES: AN INTRODUCTION: OPENING THE BLACK BOX
LONGITUDINAL STUDIES DATA COLLECTION PROGRAM
MAGNET SCHOOLS IN URBAN EDUCATION
MASS SCHOOLING
MERITOCRACY
MULTICULTURALISM
POLITICS OF EDUCATION
PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION
QUASI-MARKETS IN EDUCATION
RACE AND EDUCATION
RESTRUCTURING
SCHOOL-BASED MANAGEMENT: WHAT IT IS AND DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
SCHOOL CHOICE
SCHOOL EFFECTS
SCHOOL, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS AND CULTURAL AUTHORITY
SINGLE-SEX EDUCATION AND COEDUCATION
SOCIAL CAPITAL: A UBIQUITOUS EMERGING CONCEPTION
SOCIAL REPRODUCTION
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION AS CRITICAL THEORY
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES: CONTINUITY AND CONTESTATION IN THE FIELD
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION: MARXIST THEORIES
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION: NEW
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION: OPEN SYSTEMS APPROACH
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION: POSTMODERNISM
SOCIOLOGY OF EDUCATION: THEORETICAL APPROACHES
SPECIAL EDUCATION
SPORT AND SCHOOLING
STRUCTURALISM
STUDENT CULTURES AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
SUMMER LEARNING
TEACHER ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION
TEACHER BURNOUT
TEACHER UNIONS, OLD AND NEW
TEACHERS AND TEACHING
TRACKING
URBAN SCHOOLS
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
WORKING PARENTS
INDEX