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The financing of continuing training in Denmark
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ISBN: 9282621936 Year: 1991 Publisher: Luxembourg Office for Official Publications of the EC


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The financing of continuing vocational training in France
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ISBN: 9282622118 Year: 1991 Publisher: Luxembourg Office for Official Publications of the European Communities

Social paralysis and social change : British working-class education in the nineteenth century.
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ISBN: 0520075293 0520075307 Year: 1991 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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Neil Smelser's 'Social Paralysis and Social Change' is one of the most comprehensive histories of mass education ever written. It tells the story of how working-class education in nineteenth-century Britain--often paralyzed by class, religious, and economic conflict--struggled forward toward change. This book is ambitious in scope. It is both a detailed history of educational development and a theoretical study of social change, at once a case study of Britain and a comparative study of variations within Britain. Smelser simultaneously meets the scholarly standards of historians and critically addresses accepted theories of educational change--"progress," conflict, and functional theories. He also sheds new light on the process of secularization, the relations between industrialization and education, structural differentiation, and the role of the state in social change. This work marks a return for the author to the same historical arena--Victorian Britain--that inspired his classic work 'Social Change in the Industrial Revolution' thirty-five years ago. Smelser's research has again been exhaustive. He has achieved a remarkable synthesis of the huge body of available materials, both primary and secondary. Smelser's latest book will be most controversial in its treatment of class as a primordial social grouping, beyond its economic significance. Indeed, his demonstration that class, ethnic, and religious groupings were decisive in determining the course of British working-class education has broad-ranging implications. These groupings remain at the heart of educational conflict, debate, and change in most societies--including our own--and prompt us to pose again and again the chronic question: who controls the educational terrain?


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The financing of continuing vocational training in Belgium
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ISBN: 9282621952 Year: 1991 Publisher: Luxembourg Office for official publications of the European communities

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