Books written by Len Barton

Schooling, Ideology and the Curriculum (RLE Edu L)

They support the value of thinking of schools in terms of a school 'ethos', pointing to an analogy with studies of ... research problem within the sociology of education, of the relation of the cultural to the structural analysis.21 It ...
Education and Society: 25 Years of the British Journal of Sociology of Education

This distinction that is made between themselves, and others who enjoy and are in control of sex, suggests that they ... Direct challenges involve students in moving between power/knowledge subject positions, using the prerogatives of ...
Disability and Society: Emerging Issues and Insights

This unique book brings together key figures in the field, synthesising the work of both able-bodied and disabled contributors to assess the recent history, current practice and key issues in a rapidly growing and controversial new area.
Gender, Class & Education

at Work and at School Sara Delamont , University College , Cardiff In assembly the lower school is addressed by the ... The chapter begins with some evidence of the conservative sex - role ideologies offered by schools in Britain and ...
Social Crisis and Educational Research (RLE Edu L)

A Critique of False Consciousness' in L. Barton and S. Walker (Eds.) Schools, Teachers and Teaching, ... in P. Woods (Ed.) Pupil Strategies, Croom Helm Hammersley, M. and Atkinson, P. (1983) Ethnography: Principles in Practice, ...
Schools, Teachers and Teaching (RLE Edu N)

GINTIS, H. and BOWLES, S. (1980) 'Contradiction and Reproduction in Educational Theory' in BARTON, L., MEIGI-IAN, ... HAMMERSLEY, M. (1980) 'On interactionist empiricism' in WOODS, P. (Ed) Pupil Strategies: Explorations in the Sociology ...
Inclusive Education: Policy, Contexts and Comparative Perspectives

First published in 2000. This book looks at 'inclusive' education in the context of policy and practice in a number of different countries, particularly in relation to children and young people of school age.
Special Education and Social Interests

Special Education and Social Interests
Race, Class and Education (RLE Edu L)

The discussion in this book is developed in two ways: firstly, careful attention is given to an examination of the way minority groups create and maintain collective identities and action.
Disability, Politics and the Struggle for Change

... Common, Delinquent and Special: The Institutional Shape of Special Education. London and New York: Falmer Press. Riddell, S. et al. (1993) 'The significance of employment as a goal for young people with recorded special educational ...
Disability Studies Today

This book will be an essential textbook for students of disability studies and will be invaluable to scholars, researchers, students, policy makers, professionals, and disabled and non-disabled people interested in human rights and ...
Integration: Myth Or Reality?

A collection of conference papers on disability, handicap and policy. The intention behind the international conference was to provide a forum in which perspectives, research findings and policy developments could...
Rethinking Curriculum Studies

This book reappraises the British and American experience in curriculum studies, the curious way in which it has been dominated by certain ideas and introduces the reader to alternative ways of perceiving, defining and approaching its ...
Gender, Class & Education

Gender, Class & Education
Integration: Myth Or Reality?

A collection of conference papers on disability, handicap and policy.
Discapacidad y sociedad

... en las aulas (5.a ed.). c.NUsher, R. y Bryant, I.: La educación de adultos como teoría, práctica e investigación (2.a ed.). d.NBernstein, B.: La estructura del discurso pedagógico (3.a ed.). e.NBall, S. J.: Foucault y la educación (3.a ...
Disability and Society: Emerging Issues and Insights

The aim of this new text, Disability and Society, is to open up the debate by introducing alternative perspectives reflecting the increasing sociological interest in this important topic.
Disability and Society: Emerging Issues and Insights

Policy and practice in relation to disability have been strongly influenced by medical and psychological ideas and interests. Disability and Society is unique in that it brings a sociological perspective...