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Bridges, David – Educational Theory, 2010
In this essay David Bridges argues that since most families choose to realize their responsibility for the major part of their children's education through state schools, then the way in which the state constructs parents' relation with these schools is one of its primary levers on parenting itself. Bridges then examines the way in which…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Social Class, Child Rearing, Educational Change
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Cook-Sather, Alison – Educational Theory, 2009
Alison Cook-Sather begins this review essay with a discussion of David Tyack and Larry Cuban's generative phrase "the grammar of schooling" to provide context for her examination of three texts that address the challenges of school reform: John Sylvester Lofty's "Quiet Wisdom: Teachers in the United States and England Talk About…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Educational Philosophy, Figurative Language, Educational Change