Education
Chapter 10  Further reading and weblinks

Abraham, J. (1995) Divide and School: Gender and Class Dynamics in Comprehensive Education, Falmer Press, London
This study offers - alongside a thorough review of the aims and objectives of comprehensive education, and the debates surrounding it - a case study of one comprehensive school that shows in detail how social class and gender divisions were reproduced in spite of the egalitarian goals of comprehensive education. Unlike many other studies, this one examines differentiation in school knowledge as well as exploring the impact of streaming and the proliferation of pupil identities.

Lowe, Roy (1997) Schooling and Social Change, 1964-1990, Routledge, London
Students who read this useful historical account will have a better and more grounded grasp of how and why education is changing, and of the background to current sociological debates. Chapters cover, among other things, education and the economy, the struggle for control of the curriculum, and gender and ethnicity.

McKenzie, Janet (2000) Changing Education, Prentice Hall, New Jersey
This is an up-to-date review of the changing nature of the sociology of education since 1944 and provides a good introduction to themes and debates that sociologists of education have concerned themselves with. The text combines reviews of the literature with original research using three generations of 16 Manchester families.