Social crisis & educational research / edited by Len Barton and Stephen Walker.

Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Qualification inflation, pupil investment, and a changing sixth form / Carol Buswell -- Teaching till two thousand / Martin Cole -- Multicultural education / Barry Troyna -- Someone else's children / Denis Gleeson -- The state and the independent sector / Tony Edwards, Mary Fulbrook, and Geoff Whitty -- On the application of qualitative research to the policy process / Ray Rist -- Ethnography and social policy for classroom practice / Andrew Pollard -- Classroom control and initial teacher training / Martyn Denscombe -- The paradigmatic mentality / Martyn Hammersley -- Phenomenon and form in interactionist and neo-Marxist qualitative educational research / W. Gordon West -- Relative autonomy reconstructed / David Reynolds -- Ideology, agency, and the process of schooling / Henry A. Giroux.