This article describes and critically analyzes how sociologists in England have studied
racial/ethnic inequalities in secondary education between 1980 and 2005. This study is …

Education policy is not designed to eliminate race inequality but to sustain it at manageable
levels. This is the inescapable conclusion of the first major study of the English education …

Fieldwork in Educational Settings is widely recognised as part of the essential reading for
the researcher in education. It instructs those new to qualitative educational research how to …

This article draws on 3 ethnographic and participant observation studies of African American
parents and adults from 3 northern California communities. Although studies have shown …

Ethnocentric concepts, theories and practices in education, predominantly embedded in
western philosophy and values, tend to ignore the growing multicultural nature of …

Community participation has become the new orthodoxy within urban regeneration policy in
the UK. Yet, it remains a perennial problem for policymakers, especially at the …

Vid filosofiska fakulteten vid Linköpings universitet bedrivs forskning och ges
forskarutbildning med utgångspunkt från breda problemområden. Forskningen är …

Although the literature of social research covers a vast range of material, there has been
little on the role of social theory in educational research. In this respect, David Scott's book …

Understanding Early Years Inequality uses critical sociological perspectives to examine the
impact of changing assessment policy on primary school classrooms, with a particular focus …

Using in-depth life-story interviews and oral history archives, this book explores the impact of
South Asian migration from the 1950s onwards on both the local white, British-born …