Product Description: Whose Music? combines historical, musicological, and sociological materials and styles of analysis in ways that connect to the field of sociology. The analyses of social class systems presented here speak in translatable ways to analyses of musical forms...read more

Product Description: The comparative education field has been slow to catch on to the potential of the kind of qualitative methodologies advocated in the sociology of education and in curriculum evaluation. This book may fill the gap in literature available which discusses the methodology of case-study research in education in a Third World context...read more

Product Description: This book provides case-study research and evaluation in special education needs, carried out by class teachers in ordinary and special schools. They discuss their experience of the problems and possibilities of teacher research and offer advice on information-gathering, analysis and writing up...read more

Product Description: How are teachers planning and implementing the National Curriculum at Key Stage 2? How have the recent policy and legislative changes affected the roles and responsibilities of class teachers, curriculum coordinators, deputy headteachers and headteachers? How are primary schools managing the current plethora of innovations and what can be learned from their experience? Based on qualitative research in 50 schools throughout England and Wales, this book portrays teachers' work as it is currently experienced in the post-ERA context of multiple innovations...read more

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Product Description: This book, first published in 1982, shows that jazz and blues are music forms that are about individualism, experiment, expression and feeling. From their origin in the work songs and spirituals of America’s southern slaves, through to their adaptation to the urban adaptation to the urban environment in Chicago and New Orleans, the author details the social and economic background that saw the birth of the blues and jazz, and introduces and appraises their leading exponents...read more

Product Description: The approach of this book, first published in 1982, is multi-disciplinary. Popular music, it is argued, is not only a musical but also a social phenomenon; the criteria needed to assess it are different from those used in the appreciation of ‘classical’ music...read more