Sociology of Education

by Rajendra K. Jain, Soti Shivendra Chandra

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The present work is a comprehensive attempt to critically discuss sociology of education, according to the syllabi of various Indian Universities for M.A. (sociology), B.Ed. and M.Ed. examinations. Part one of the book provides an introduction to the subject, through a discussion of the meaning, type and functions of education; aims and objectives of education; agencies of education; evaluation of the current educational pattern; curriculum; teaching devices and innovations in teaching. Part two starts with an introduction to educational sociology and proceeds to discuss socialization and family; peer group and education; the College; social functions of education; education, state and community; impact of social stratification in India; education and modernization in India, social change and social control through education; deschooling society; teacherâ€™s role in society; education and economic order; values and education; education and culture; education for international understanding; education for Democracy; education for socialistic pattern of society; the disturbed Campus and materialism in education and national emotional integration. The work is analytic in presentation and synthetic in discussing the subject matter, to provide an ideal textbook on the subject.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rajendra K. Jain

Rajendra K Jain of European Studies and Director, Europe Area Studies Programme, Centre for European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal University, new Delhi. He was Network Coordinator of the JNU European Union Studies Programme (financed by the European Commission) (2002-2004). He was formerly Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at the University of Constance and Visiting fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London and the Foundation of Science and Politics, Germany. He has been Visiting Professor at the universities of Leipzig and Tuebingen and Maison des Sciences de Iâ€™Homme, Paris. He has published nearly sixty journal articles an is the author/editor of over twenty books, including India and the European Union in the 21st Century and the European Union in a Changing World.