Education and Social Control: A Study in Progressive Primary Education

by Anthony Green and Rachel Sharp

Book Overview

First published in 1975, this book offers a critique of some of the 'new perspectives' in the sociology of education. This is achieved through a case study of a progressive child centred school.

The book suggests that a liberal approach to education fails to appreciate how thoroughly a complex, stratified industrial society penetrates the school. It argues that the practice of 'progressive' education may be a modern form of conservativism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113862991X
• ISBN13: 9781138629912
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"