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The credential society : an historical sociology of education and stratification
The Credential Society by Randall Collins is a classic on higher education and its role in American society first published in 1979. Forty years later, it remains an essential text for understanding the reproduction of inequality. Its controversial claim that the expansion of American education has not increased social mobility, but created a cycle of credential inflation, has proven remarkably prescient. Collins shows how credential inflation stymies mass education's promises of upward mobility. An unacknowledged spiral of the rising production of credentials and job requirements was brought about by the expansion of high school and then undergraduate education, with consequences including grade inflation, rising educational costs, and misleading job promises dangled by for-profit schools. Collins examines medicine, law, and engineering to show the ways in which credentialing closed these high-status professions to new arrivals. In an era marked by the devaluation of high school diplomas, outcry about the value of expensive undergraduate degrees, and the proliferation of new professional degrees like the MBA, The Credential Society has more than stood the test of time. In a new preface, Collins discusses recent developments, debunks claims that credentialization is driven by technological change, and points to alternative pathways for the future of education.
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The Classics and South African Identities
The teaching and research of the Classics in South Africa are deeply rooted in the racial, political and educational inequalities which have characterised its turbulent history. In this original study, Michael Lambert opens three windows on to this history, using the creation of identities as his theoretical lens. The foundation of the Classical Association of South Africa in 1956 and the cultural reinforcement of Afrikaner nationalist identity; the deployment of British colonial identity in public discourses about the role of the Classics in apartheid South Africa at an English-speaking university; and the exploration of black African identities in response to the teaching of the Classics at missionary institutions, where 'vocational training' was locked in combat with a classical education, regarded by an educated black elite as the means for upward social mobility in a highly-stratified colonial society. The book will be of interest to students of many subjects, including Classics, Cultural Studies, African Studies and History of Education.
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Education systems in historical, cultural, and sociological perspectives
This volume includes different historical, cultural, and sociological approaches to the education systems and to questions as to how research on education systems can be undertaken beyond the parameters of the existing research agenda. They demonstrate how pertinent problems of research on education systems can only be tackled taking an international and interdisciplinary approach with regard to both research questions and methods concerning education systems.
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Children of the Mill
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Ronald D. Cohen is Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest. He is the author of Moonlight in Duneland: The Illustrated Story of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad and Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 .
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English Education and the Radicals 1780-1850
The radicalism of the period from the 1780s to the mid-nineteenth century represented a harnessing of knowledge in protest against injustices and oppression, a pooling of effort to transform society. In this book the author explores the main strains in working and middle-class radicalism over this crucial period, with emphasis on the educational ideas and activities of radical movements, their spokesmen and ideologies.
The author stresses some of the central educational interests of radical movements through the radical organizations of the 1780s and 1790s, and early nineteenth-century political and social movements, including the utilitarians, Owenites, Chartists and Tory radicals. He discusses educational ideas and action with regard to infants and adults, basic literacy and political understanding, examines some of the forms of study, self-education and propaganda to political action.
This book is a study in miniature of the processes of political and social change in a period of industrial, political and social revolution - its theme is education in its widest sense.
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Schooled to Order
A significant new addition to the field of educational and social history. The broad perspective and effective blending of varying historical assessments reveal Nasaw's strength as a writer and historian.
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Jewish Empowerment in the German Academic Space: Tectonic Shifts in the Jewish Arena After 1990
This article explores the continuation of the Nazi heritage in German universities. The results of the existing investigations into Nazi continuities in the knowledge sector are sobering, and a lacuna remains at the structural level. To what extent has the Nazi heritage and the repercussions of the Shoah found their way into departments and disciplines established after 1945? How does this heritage affect the disciplines dedicated to Jewish topics, and why underwhelm social sciences and humanities on this issue? This paper considers the infrastructure, funding, research content and topics that fall within the academic disciplines of Judaic Studies, Jewish Studies and Jewish Theology. It seeks to understand the structures and knowledge architectures that shape these disciplines. Further, it inserts the biographical backgrounds and emotional heritage of the researchers themselves (Chernivsky and Scheuering (eds) in Gefühlserbschaften im Umbruch - Perspektiven, Kontroversen, Gegenwartsfragen (10/18/2021). Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Juden in Deutschland e. V., Frankfurt.
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, 2016; Schaum in being Jewish (and) in love: two and a half stories about Jews, Germans and love. Hentrich & Hentrich, Leipzig, 2020), and the link between this and the consequent lack in research on living Jews (Kranz in J Mod Jewish Stud, 2022).
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