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1. Knowledge and Identity

   Concepts and Applications in Bernstein's Sociology

   Edited by Gabrielle Ivinson, Brian Davies, John Fitz

   What in the digital era is knowledge? Who has knowledge and whose knowledge has value? Postmodernism has introduced a relativist flavour into educational research such that big questions about the purposes of education have tended to be eclipsed by minutiae. Changes in economic and financial...

   Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge
2. Education Policy and Social Reproduction

   Class Inscription & Symbolic Control

   By John Fitz, Brian Davies, John Evans

   This book takes a theoretically informed look at British education policy over the last sixty years when secondary schooling for all children became an established fact for the first time. Comprehensive schools largely replaced a system based on academic selection. Now, under choice and competition...

   Published October 2nd 2005 by Routledge
3. Schools, Markets and Choice Policies

   By John Fitz, Stephen Gorard, Chris Taylor

   Choice and selection are now cornerstones of education policies wherever these have been shaped by market economics. Now, as never before, schools can face uncertain futures, because their survival is determined by external factors such as admission policies and parental preferences. Because of the...

   Published July 30th 2003 by Routledge