Annotation Originally published in 1968.

The subject matter of this book - what happens in schools, the effects of curriculum change, the reasons why some children are successful and others are not - e

One problem which continues to absorb social scientists is the way in which so much social deprivation stems from racial or class status. The discussion in this

This book introduces the student to the various phenomenological and humanistic Marxist perspectives as they are being applied to education and provides an acco

The major theories explored are those concerned with social mobility and those which derive from a relativist position in Sociology, both of which see education