Schools and Society by Jeanne H Ballantine

Schools and Society by Jeanne H Ballantine

The authors are proud sponsors of the 2020 SAGE Keith Roberts Teaching Innovations Award—enabling graduate students and early career faculty to attend the annual ASA pre-conference teaching and learning workshop. This comprehensive anthology features classical readings on the sociology of education, as well as current, original essays by notable contemporary scholars. Assigned as a main text or a supplement, this fully updated Sixth Edition uses the open systems approach to provide readers with a framework for understanding and analyzing the book’s range of topics. Jeanne H. Ballantine, Joan Z. Spade, and new co-editor Jenny M. Stuber, all experienced researchers and instructors in this subject, have chosen articles that are highly readable, and that represent the field’s major theoretical perspectives, methods, and issues. The Sixth Edition includes twenty new selections and five revisions of original readings and features new perspectives on some of the most contested issues in the field today, such as school funding, gender issues in schools, parent and neighborhood influences on learning, growing inequality in schools, and charter schools.

"The readings included in Ballantine, Spade, and Stuber’s reader are challenging yet informative, and they cover a broad spectrum of educational issues appropriate for an upper-level undergraduate Sociology of Education courseThe introductions to each section do a nice job of summarizing what is to follow in the articles and explain clearly how the articles tie together."

-- Lee Millar Bidwell

Jeanne H. Ballantine is Emerita Professor of Sociology at Wright State University, a state university of about 17,000 students in Ohio. She has also taught at several 4-year colleges, including an “alternative” college and a traditionally Black college, and at international programs in universities abroad. She has been teaching introductory sociology for more than 30 years with a mission to introduce the uninitiated to the field and to help students see the usefulness and value in sociology. She has been active in the teaching movement, shaping curriculum, writing and presenting research on teaching, and offering workshops and consulting in regional, national, and international forums. She is a Fulbright Senior Scholar and serves as a Departmental Resources Group consultant and evaluator.   Jeanne has written several textbooks, all with the goal of reaching the student audience. As the original director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Wright State University, she scoured the literature on student learning and served as a mentor to teachers in a wide variety of disciplines. Local, regional, and national organizations have honored her for her teaching and for her contributions to helping others become effective teachers. In 1986, the American Sociological Association’s Section on Undergraduate Education (now called the Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology) recognized her with the Hans O. Mauksch Award for Distinguished Contributions to Teaching of Sociology. In 2004, she was honored by the American Sociological Association with its Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award. In 2010, the North Central Sociological Association awarded her the J. Milton Yinger Award for Distinguished Career in Sociology. Joan Z. Spade is Professor Emerita of sociology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York. She received her PhD from the University at Buffalo, State University of New York; her MA from the University of Rochester; and her BA from the State University of New York at Geneseo. In addition to courses on gender, Joan taught courses on education, family, research methods, and statistics. She published articles on rape culture in college fraternities and on work and family, including women’s and men’s orientations toward work. She has also coedited two books on education and published articles on education, including research on tracking, and gender and education. Joan was active in Sociologists for Women in Society, Eastern Sociological Society, and the American Sociological Association. In addition to visiting children and grandchildren with her significant other, she enjoys RVing, music and the arts, travel, and being outdoors. Dr. Jenny Stuber is a professor of Sociology at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. She is an award-winning teacher, with more than 20 years of experience in the classroom. Her classroom is a dynamic space, where students discover the intellectual and professional power of sociology. She has also led students on numerous study abroad trips and has been recognized as a committed mentor of student research. Her research focuses on the cultural dimensions of socioeconomic inequality, with a particular emphasis on how social class is understood, enacted, and transformed within settings like schools and communities. Stuber has published numerous books and articles focusing on various dimensions of inequality, identity, and difference, as well as several sociology textbooks.

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ISBN 13	9781506346977
ISBN 10	1506346979
Title	Schools and Society
Author	Jeanne H Ballantine
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2018-02-06
Number of pages	528
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.