| Description |
xii, 366 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-355) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the social organization of schools / Barbara Schneider -- PART 1 : the relationship between sociology and the study of education -- 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 -- Prospects for teaching as a profession / Susan Moore Johnson -- Anomaly of educational 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 -- 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 -- School 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 -- 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. |
| Subject |
Schools -- Sociological aspects.
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Educational sociology.
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School management and organization.
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| Added Author |
Hedges, Larry V.
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Schneider, Barbara L.
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| ISBN |
0871543400 |
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9780871543400 |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 272000310 |
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