Culture and learning : access and opportunity in the classroom / edited by Mark Olssen.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Mark Olssen -- Human learning in social context / Peter Jarvis -- Bourdieu in the classroom / Michael Grenfell -- Beyond reproduction theory : a multi-level explanation of inequality/difference in education / Roy Nash -- Can the arbitrary and the necessary be reconciled? : scientific realism and the school curriculum / Roy Nash -- Basil Bernstein : social divisions and cultural transmission / Michael Erben and Hilary Dickinson -- Language, discourse, literacy : stability, territory, and transformation / Paul Dowling -- ICT in the classroom : the pedagogical challenge of respatialisation and reregulation / Susan Robertson [and others] -- Dilemmas in designing problems in "realistic" school mathematics : a sociological overview and some research findings / Barry Cooper -- System-wide reform : the role of professional development for instructional improvement / Richard Harker and John O'Neill -- The impact of school composition : new insights into an enduring problem / Martin Thrupp -- Knowledge and the curriculum in the sociology of education : towards a reconceptualization / Rob Moore and Michael Young -- The sociology of IQ : enhancing cognitive skills / James R. Flynn -- Ability, selection, and institutional racism in schools / David Gillborn -- Race and the politics of educational reform / Michael W. Apple -- Poverty, learning opportunities, and the social construction of collective intelligence / Phillip Brown and Hugh Lauder -- Don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger : discourses, dialectics, and deficits / Keith Sullivan -- Gender differences in educational achievement : a socio-cultural analysis / Patricia Murphy and Gabrielle Ivinson -- Educational trauma and "at-risk" students / Keith Sullivan.

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