Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia

Education today is complex, changing, global, and politicized. A good case can then be made for being sociological about it, because sociology picks up on social and institutional change, culture and gender, race and class, economics and discourse, and the ideology of the curriculum and its assessment. These issues feed through into the structures set up to provide education, the aims and assumptions about education (liberal democracy, citizenship, equality, workforce needs, moral competence, culture), and the nature of professionalism. This work chooses from a wide field, conscious of the speed and impact of reform, particularly in the USA, aware of...