This text gives students a depth of understanding about how education influences and shapes society and conversely how society shapes education policy. It has never been more important for students of education to be able to understand the connections between the local and the global in explaining contemporary educational change. This text explains the connection between how the Australian education system has been shaped over time, and how this has influenced the current institutions and policies that comprise the state of education. This comprehensive and theoretical text on the sociology of education helps students engage with the theory of educational sociology and learn how to critically reflect on it.
1. Young people in educational institutions2. Growing up3. Youth
transitions4. The city and the bush5. Social class and inequality6. Cultural
difference and identity7. Indigenous education8. Gender9. Making education
policy10. School systems and school choice11. Curriculum12. Teachers13.
Globalisation14. Researching education
Anthony Welch (editor of this volume) Professor of Education, University of Sydney
Nigel Bagnall Associate Professor in the School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
Kellie Burns Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
Hernan Cuervo Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne
Dennis Foley Adjunct Professor of Indigenous Entrepreneurship at the University of Canberra and an Honorary Professor at the ANU and University of Queensland
Susan Groundwater-Smith Honorary Professor in the School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
Valerie Harwood Professor of Sociology and Anthropology of Education in the School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
Remy Low Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
Nicole Mockler Associate Professor in the School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
Helen Proctor Professor of Education in the School of Education and Social Work , University of Sydney
Victoria Rawlings Lecturer in the School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney
Meghan Stacey Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of New South Wales
Ben Wilson Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Canberra.
Julian Wood teaches sociology and sociology of education at the University of Sydney
