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Background information

Handbook of social and emotional learning : research and practice / edited by Joseph A. Durlak, Celene E. Domitrovich, Roger P. Weissberg, Thomas P. Gullotta.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1072 .H37 2015
The Palgrave handbook of race and ethnic inequalities in education / edited by Peter A.J. Stevens and A. Gary Dworkin.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212 .P35 2014
"provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality in 18 different national contexts"
Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education / Editor, James A. Banks, University of Washington.
Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC1099 .E38 2012 V.1
"The major aim of this encyclopedia is to describe the most important concepts, theories, research, policies, case studies, and programs at the pre-school through the postsecondary levels and their implications for educational reform. Diversity is defined broadly in this encyclopedia and includes race, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation (LGBT), religion, language, and exceptionality, which encompasses giftedness and disability." p. xlviii
Education and sociology : an encyclopedia / editors, David L. Levinson, Peter W. Cookson, Jr., Alan R. Sadovnik.
New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2002.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC189.95 .E38 2002
"Pooling together writings from leading academic authorities in education, this single-volume reference provides readers and researchers with provocative new topics and issues in the sociology of education. Entries cover both national and international perspectives and studies, and tackle controversial points in education today, from gender inequality to globalization, minorities to meritocracy."
Encyclopedia of education and human development / Stephen J. Farenga and Daniel Ness, editors ; foreword by James H. Borland.
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2005.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LB15 .E473 2005 V.1
Handbook of cultural politics and education / edited by Zeus Leonardo.
Rotterdam, The Netherlands ; Boston : Sense Publishers, c2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC71 .H362 2010
"The Handbook is part of the appraisal of an opening created by interdisciplinary writings on such themes as representation, civil society, cultural struggle, subjectivity, and media within the context of education. Indeed cultural politics troubles traditional frameworks in search of critical explanations concerning education's place within society."
Handbook of research in the social foundations of education / edited by Steven E. Tozer, Bernardo P. Gallegos and Annette M. Henry ; with section editors Mary Bushnell Greiner and Paula Groves Price.
New York : Routledge, 2011.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC191.4 .H36 2011
"This Handbook represents a collective representation of where important elements of our professional knowledge in Social Foundations stand today."
Handbook of the sociology of education [electronic resource] / edited by Maureen T. Hallinan.
New York : Springer, 2006.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences / editors-in-chief Neil J. Smelser, Paul B. Baltes.
1st ed. Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 2001.
Green Library » Social Sciences Resource Center (non-circulating) » H41 .I58 2001 V.1
The international handbook on the sociology of education : an international assessment of new research and theory / edited by Carlos Alberto Torres and Ari Antikainen.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2003.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC189 .I53 2003
"The first part discusses new developments in social theory and methodology in the sociology of education. The second part offers a sequence of snapshots of the practice of sociology of education in different countries and regions of the world, as well as a focus on how the educational process is being analyzed by diverse audiences. The third part offers an appraisal of critical issues in sociology of education, including some of the thorniest debates in the field."
The RoutledgeFalmer reader in gender and education / edited by Madeleine Arnot and Mairtin Mac an Ghaill.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212.9 .R69 2006
The Praeger handbook of Latino education in the U.S. / edited by Lourdes Diaz Soto ; foreword by Antonia Darder.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC2669 .P73 2007 V.1
"A-Z thematic entries written by contemporary scholars" "including major educational perspectives, policies and concerns, significant events, historical figures in the field, and major organizations--provides a comprehensive educational resource..."
The Routledge international handbook of the sociology of education / edited by Michael W. Apple, Stephen J. Ball and Luis Armando Gandin.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC191 .R684 2010
Part 1: Perspectives and theories; Part 2: Social processes and practices; Part 3: Inequalities and resistances
The Sage handbook of gender and education / edited by Christine Skelton, Becky Francis, and Lisa Smulyan.
Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, 2006.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC212.9 .S24 2006
"It is a comprehensive overview of different theoretical positions on gender issues in schools. The contributions cover all sectors of education from early years to higher education; curriculum subjects; methodological and theoretical perspectives; and gender identities in education. Each chapter reviews, synthesises and provides a critical interrogation of key contemporary themes in education."
21st century education : a reference handbook / edited by Thomas L. Good.
Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, c2008.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LA210 .A15 2008 V.1

New books

Evidence-informed policy and practice in education : a sociological grounding / Chris Brown.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC71 .B76 2015
Conflict in the academy : a study in the sociology of intellectuals / Marcus Morgan (University of Cambridge, UK) and Patrick Baert (University of Cambridge, UK).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1778.4 .G7 M67 2015
Educational upward mobility : practices of social changes / Antonia Kupfer.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC5056 .G7 K87 2015
University engagement and environmental sustainability / edited by Patricia Inman and Diana L. Robinson.
New York, NY : Manchester University Press, 2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC191.9 .U553 2014
Race and the origins of progressive education, 1880-1929 / Thomas D. Fallace.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC191.4 .F35 2015
Public housing and school choice in a gentrified city : youth experiences of uneven opportunity / Molly Vollman Makris.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC205.5 .N45 M35 2015
What's race got to do with it? : how current school reform policy maintains racial and economic inequality / edited by Bree Picower and Edwin Mayorga.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC212.2 .W44 2015
The prison path : school practices that hurt our youth / Christen E. Clemson.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LA210 .C536 2015
Mainstreams, margins and the spaces in-between : new possibilities for education research / edited by Karen Trimmer, Alison L. Black and Stewart Riddle.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1028 .M2638 2015
Knowledge and knowers : towards a realist sociology of education / Karl Maton.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC191 .M38 2014
Interrogating critical pedagogy : the voices of educators of color in the movement / edited by Pierre Wilbert Orelus and Rochelle Brock.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC196 .I68 2015
Interculturalization and teacher education : theory to practice / Cheryl A. Hunter, Donna K. Pearson, and A. Renee Gutiérrez.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1099 .H86 2015
Language, nation, and identity in the classroom : legacies of modernity and colonialism in schooling / David Hemphill and Erin Blakely.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC191 .H42 2015
Literacy teaching and learning in rural communities : problematizing stereotypes, challenging myths / edited by Lisa Schade Eckert and Janet Alsup.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC149 .L518 2015
Identity, neoliberalism and aspiration : educating white working-class boys / Garth Stahl.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1390 .S78 2015
Prelude to prison : student perspectives on school suspension / Marsha Weissman.
1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2015.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB3012.2 .W45 2015
Educational binds of poverty : the lives of school children / Ceri Brown.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC4065 .B78 2015
Negotiating privilege and identity in educational contexts / Adam Howard, Aimee Polimeno, and Brianne Wheeler, [editors].
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC4941 .N44 2014
Being bad : my baby brother and the school-to-prison pipeline / Crystal T. Laura ; foreword by William Ayers ; afterword by Erica R. Meiners.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2779 .L38 2014
Teaching about dialect variations and language in secondary English classrooms : power, prestige, and prejudice / Michelle D. Devereaux.
New York : Routledge, 2015.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1631 .D45 2015
We can't lead where we won't go : an educator's guide to equity / Gary R. Howard.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1099.3 H67 2015
Practice-oriented.
Children, social class, and education : shifting identities in Fiji / Karen J. Brison.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC206 .F45 B75 2014
Who's afraid of the big bad dragon? : why China has the best (and worst) education system in the world / Yong Zhao.
First Edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC94 .C5 Z424 2014
Knowledge and the future of the curriculum : international studies in social realism / edited by Brian Barrett (Associate Professor, State University of New York College at Cortland, USA), Elizabeth Rata (Associate Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC191 .K5925 2014
Materializing literacies in communities : the uses of literacy revisited / Kate Pahl.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » P40.5 .L58 P34 2014
Built to fail : structural deficiencies and student failure / Randy K. Trani and Robert K. Irvine.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2805 .T73 2014
Education and hegemony : social construction of knowledge in India in the era of globalisation / by Nagaraju Gundemeda.
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » T58.5 .G835 2014
Transnational policy flows in European education : the making and governing of knowledge in the education policy field / edited by Andreas Nordin & Daniel Sundberg.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB43 .O94 2014
Gender, feminism, and queer theory in the self-study of teacher education practices / edited by Monica Taylor and Lesley Coia.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1707 .G45 2014

Journals

Education and urban society.
Beverly Hills, Sage Publications.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reading Room
Sociology of education.
Albany, N.Y., American Sociological Association [etc.]
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » 370.5 .J836 V.82 2009
Teaching sociology.
[Beverly Hills, Calif.] Sage Publications.
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » HM1 .T43 V.36 2008

Databases

Education databases

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.
Education full text [electronic resource].
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.
Education week American education news site of record [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Teachers College record book reviews [electronic resource].
Birmingham, AL : Teachers College Record
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"Teachers College Record Book Reviews provides comprehensive reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields. "

Related Databases

Sociological abstracts.
[San Diego, etc., Sociological Abstracts, inc.]
SAL3 (off-campus storage) » Stacks » HM1 .S67 V.52:NO.6 2004
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Family studies database [electronic resource].
Baltimore, Md. : National Information Services Corp.,
Green Library » InfoCenter: desk (non-circulating) » HQ1 .F367
Indexes and abstracts over 1,000 journals, books, conference papers, government reports, etc. in the area of family studies.
IBSS extra [electronic resource] : the international bibliography of the social sciences.
Norwood, MA : SilverPlatter Information,
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Contains bibliographic information from an international selection of publications (including over 2600 journals and books, book reviews, and book chapters) in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
Social services abstracts [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews."

Gender databases

Contemporary women's issues [electronic resource].
Beachwood, OH : Responsive Database Services,
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Contains full text of reports, articles, and newsletters on issues affecting women.
GenderWatch [electronic resource].
[Stamford, CT] : Softline Information, Inc., [1998 or 1999]-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Full text collection of journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings and governmental NGO and special reports devoted to women's and gender issues. Contains materials dating back to the 1970's.
Women's resources international.
Baltimore, MD: National Information Services Corp. (NISC), c1991,1996-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Indexes the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Over 800 essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites & web documents, and grey literature.

Websites

American Sociological Association's Section on Sociology of Education

The purpose of the Section on Sociology of Education is to foster the development of this aspect of sociology and its application through the study of the ways in which formal schooling influences individuals and the ways society affects educational institutions.

John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities

"The John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities (JGC) at Stanford University partners with communities to develop leadership, conduct research and effect change to improve the lives of youth. Our work is rooted in the principles of community youth development: a community only prospers when its young people prosper, and young people only flourish in a flourishing community. Specifically, the Center believes in working in deep partnership with communities; bridging the gap between research, practice and policy; generating actionable research; providing opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to contribute to research projects; and ultimately seeking to inform both the community at hand and the broader field about critical findings from our work."