Challenges of Urban Education
(February 2000)
Sociological Perspectives for the Next Century Karen A. McClafferty - Editor Carlos Alberto Torres - Editor Theodore R. Mitchell - Editor
Presents current research and theoretical perspectives on the challenges facing educators in U.S. urban schools.
"This book is definitely on the cutting edge of educational sociology theory and practice." -- Yali Zou, author of Ethnic Identity and Power: Cultural Contexts of Political Action in School and Society
A supplemental text with a fresh, bold edge, Challenges of Urban Education includes a range of topics ...(Read More)
Sociology of Education
(September 1998)
Emerging Perspectives Carlos Alberto Torres - Editor Theodore R. Mitchell - Editor
Examines emerging theoretical and methodological approaches to the field of sociology of education. These perspectives draw on notions of social justice, diversity, multiculturalism, and detracking.
Sociology of Education discusses emerging theoretical and methodological approaches to the field of sociology of education. These emerging perspectives focus on the scholarship of class, race, gender and the state in education, and ...(Read More)