Front cover image for Schools and societies

Schools and societies

In Schools and Societies the author demonstrates that more than any other major institution, schooling and schools are political, and virtually everyone has opinions to voice and interests to promote. Steven Brint musters a wealth of comparative material to show how schooling around the world is shaped by social forces even as "it" tries to shape the societies of the future
Print Book, English, ©1998
Pine Forge Press, Thousand Oaks, ©1998
bibliography
xviii, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780803990593, 0803990596
37801347
Schools as social institutions
Schooling in the industrialized world
Schooling in the developing world
Schools and the transmission of knowledge
Schools and socialization
Schools and social selection, 1 : Opportunity
Schools and social selection, 2 : Inequality
Teaching and learning in comparative perspective
School reform and the possibilities of schooling