The social organization of schooling / Larry V. Hedges and Barbara Schneider, editors.
| Other author | Hedges, Larry V. |
| Other author | Schneider, Barbara L. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2005. |
| Description | xii, 366 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : the social organization of schools / Barbara Schneider --PART 1 : the relationship between sociology and the study of education -- A sociological agenda for research on education / Charles E. Bidwell -- Ecosystems and the structuring of organizations / W. Richard Scott -- PART 2 : teaching as a profession -- Teaching and the competence of occupations / Robert Dreeben -- The prospects for teaching as a profession / Susan Moore Johnson -- The anomaly of ecuational organizations and the study of organizational control / Richard M. Ingersoll -- Professional community by design : building social capital through teacher professional development / Adam Gamoran, Ramona Gunter, and Tona Williams -- PART 3 : The microsociology of schools and classrooms -- The normative culture of a school and student socialization / Maureen T. Hallinan -- Why work when you can play? dynamics of formal and informal organization in classrooms / Daniel a. McFarland -- Shcool organization, curricular structure, and the distribution and effects of instruction for tenth-grade science / Robert A. Petrin -- Subgroups as meso-level entities in the social organization of schools / Kenneth A. Frank and Yong Zhao -- PART 4 : change in social organizations -- The cross-national context of the gender gap in math and science / Catherine Riegle-Crumb -- Organizational coupling, control, and change : the role of higher-order models of control in educational reform / Christopher B. Swanson -- Achievement and equity / Chandra Muller and Kathryn S. Schiller -- School transition programs in organizational context : problems of recruitment, coordination, and integration / Kathryn S. Schiller -- Mobilizing community resources to reform failing schools / Lori Diane Hill. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-355) and index. |
| LCCN | 2004061462 |
| ISBN | 0871543400 |