This paper analyses, from the perspective of the political sociology of policy instruments, the adoption and re-contextualisation of School Autonomy with Accountability (SAWA) reforms in Spain, with a particular focus on the region of Madrid. Over the last few decades, Madrid has adopted a wide range of education policies that have contributed to…

This article discusses the expansion of education systems that now, following international declarations, are expected to offer an "Education for All" to children, young people and adults. Since in these declarations special education and inclusive education are conjoined, sociological questions can be asked as to what sort of social…

The role of the school in multiethnic societies is a central issue in the sociology of education. The discipline's focus on multiculturalism in education has been investigated through the examination of the production of knowledge in terms of the curriculum as a tool for articulating information, as well as the reproduction of knowledge in terms…

Author attempts to define sociology, its objectives, and considers stages in the development of the sociology of education and their significance for teaching. (Author/RK)

The intention of this paper is to analyze the consequences of the proliferation of new sociological perspectives on the claims of Sociology to be a science. (Author/RK)

This article traces the institutionalization of educational sociology as an academic field of study in Britain, arguing in particular that an official report of 1954, an academic promotion in 1967, and the birth of a specialist journal in 1980 have constituted landmarks in the process. (Author/SJL)

The aim of this paper has been to produce a brief summary of the phenomenological perspective in sociology and to show how it has been, and might be, applied to the analysis of the school. (Author)

The occasion of this paper is to focus several concerns of the writer, such as conceptions of the sociology of knowledge and teachers' and sociologists' predicaments. (Author/RK)

The mythical purity of research and scientific method leads to limited practice. Teacher researchers should question the universality of findings and recognize their position as researchers and as classed, raced, and gendered subjects, moving the focus away from policymakers and toward a wider constituency. (SK)

The authors trace and critique various thrusts operative in British educational sociology since its beginnings in the 1950s: structural functionalism, school-level analysis, the interactionalist "New Directions" approach, and the Neo-Marxist perspective. They also comment on the place of educational sociology in teacher training. (SJL)

This review examines aspects of schooling most significant to academic performance. Part I considers sociological aspects of the school: school selection, grouping practices, peer group formation and influence, and teacher expectation. Part II looks at pedagogical/policy aspects: teacher characteristics, expenditures, and class size. Further…