Bøker av Madeleine Arnot

This book offers in-depth analyses of how education interacts with social inequality in Southern contexts. Drawing on a range of disciplinary frameworks, it presents new analyses of existing knowledge and new empirical data which define the challenges and possibilities of successful educational reform.

A comprehensive and up-to-date account of the developments in British education from 1945 to the present day. Focuses on how and why the gender gap is closing in the British education system.

These essays cover Arnot's early work on gender codes and her critique of Bernstein, her analysis of state educational policy in Britain and her work on theorizing a feminist democratic education and ideal citizenship.

Globalisation and global human rights are the two major forces in the twenty first century which are likely to shape the sort of learner citizen created by the educational system. This book offers an introduction to the contribution that sociological research on the education of the citizen can make to these national and global debates.