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Revised February 2007
Compiled by Robert Dreeben, University of Chicago

British Education

Abramson PR, "English Secondary Education and The Political Socialization Process." SocEd 40 3, 1967, pp 246-269

Adamson JW, English Education 1789-1902. Cambridge: Cambridge, 1964
       LA631.A28

Akenson DH, The Irish Education Experiment: The National System of Education in the Nineteenth Century. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970
       LA641.7.A6

Akenson DH, A Mirror to Kathleen's Face: Education in Independent Ireland, 1922-1960. Montreal: McGill-Queens, 1975
       LA641.8.A440

Altick RD, The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900. Chicago: Chicago, 1957
       Z1003..A47

Anderson PJ, The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture, 1790-1860. London: Oxford, 1991
       Z1039.L3A530

Anderson RD, Education and Opportunity in Victorian Scotland: Schools and Universities. Oxford: Oxford, 1983
       LA658.A530

Anderson RD, Education and the Scottish People, 1750-1918. Oxford: Oxford, 1995

Anstead CJ and Goodson IF, "Structure and Mediation: Glimpses of Everyday Life at the London Technical and Commercial High School, 1920-1940." AmJEd 102 1, 1993, pp 55-79

Archer MS, Social Origins of Educational Systems. Beverly Hills CA: Sage, 1984
       LC191.A6740

Ashton D and Lowe G (eds), Making Their Way: Education and the Labour Market in Canada and Britain. Toronto: Toronto, 1991

Avery G, The Best Type of Girl: A History of Girls' Independent Schools. London: Deutsch, 19

Ball SJ, Beachside Comprehensive:... Cambridge: Cambridge, 1981
       LA635.B2

Bamford TW, "Public Schools and Social Class, 1801-1850." BritJSoc 12 3, 1961, pp 224-235

Bamford TW, The Rise of the Public Schools: A Study of Boys' Public Boarding Schools in England and Wales from 1837 to the Present Day. London: Nelson, 1967
LA634.B2

Banks O, Parity and Prestige in English Secondary Education:... London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1955
       LA635.B22

Barker Lunn JC, Streaming in the Primary School. London: National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales, 1970
       LB3061.B25

Barnes SV, "England's Civic Universities and the Triumph of the Oxbridge Ideal." HistEdQ 36 3, 1996, pp 271-305

Bennett N, Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress. London: Open Books, 1976
       LB1025.2.B4480

Bennett N, Desforges C, Cockburn A, and Wilkinson B, The Quality of Pupil Learning Experiences. Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum, 1984
       LA633.Q340

Bennett N and Jordan J, "A Typology of Teaching Styles in Primary Schools." BritJEdPsy 45 1, 1975, pp 20-28

Bergen BH, "Only a Schoolmaster: Gender, Class, and the Effort to Professionalize Elementary Teaching in England, 1870-1910." HistEdQ 22 1, 1982, pp 1-21

Bernstein B, Class, Codes and Control:... v 1, 2, 3, 4. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1990
       P41.B53

Blackstone T, "The Plowden Report." BritJSoc 18 3, 1967, pp 291-302

Blyth WAL, English Primary Education: A Sociological Description. (v 1). New York: Humanities, 1965

Burgess RG, Experiencing Comprehensive Education: A Study of Bishop McGregor School. London: Methuen, 1983
LC506.E5B870

Burstyn JN, Victorian Education and the Ideal of Womanhood. New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers 1984

Camic C, "Experience and Ideas: Education for Universalism in Eighteenth-Century Scotland." CompStudSocHist 25 1, 1983, pp 50-82

Chandos J, Boys Together: English Public Schools, 1800-1864. New Haven: Yale, 1984
LC1390.C430

Clanchy M, From Memory to Written Record: England, 1066-1307. Cambridge: Harvard, 1979
       DA185/.C520

Colls R, "Oh Happy English Children!" Coal, Class and Education in the North-East." Past and Present 73, 1979, pp

Connell RW, Teachers Work. London: Allen and Unwin, 1985

Cressy D, "Educational Opportunity in Tudor and Stuart England." HistEdQ 16 3, 1976, pp 301-320

Cressy D, Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England. Cambridge: Cambridge, 1980
       LC156.G7C730

Cuttance PF, "Coleman, Plowden, Jencks, and Now Rutter: An Assessment of A Recent Contribution to The Debate on School Effects." ScanJEdRes 24 4, 1980, pp 191-205

Davey IE, "The Rhythm of Work and the Rhythm of School." In McDonald N and Chaiton A (eds), Egerton Ryerson and His Times. Toronto: Macmillan, 1978

Douglas JWB, The Home and the School. London: Macgibbon and Kee, 1964
       LB1131.D66

Elder GH, "Life Opportunity and Personality: Some Consequences of Stratified Secondary Education in Great Britain." SocEd 38 3, 1965, pp 173-202

Ellis ACO, "Influences on School Attendance in Victorian England." BritJEdStud 21 , 1973, pp 313-326

Engel AJ, From Clergyman to Don: The Rise of the Academic Profession in Nineteenth-Century Oxford. New York: Oxford, 1983
       LF519.E530

Fletcher AJ, "The Expansion of Education in Berkshire and Oxfordshire, 1500-1670." BritJEdStud 15 1, 19867, pp 15-59

Floud J, "Teaching in the Affluent Society." BritJSoc 13 4, 1962, pp 299-308

Floud JE, Halsey AH, and Martin FM, Social Class and Educational Opportunity. London: Heinemann, 1957
       LA631.F64

Furlong A, Growing Up in a Classless Society? School to Work Transitions. Edinburgh: Edinburgh, 1992

Galton M and Simon B (eds), Progress and Performance in the Primary Classroom. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980
       LB1564.G7P760

Galton M, Simon B, and Croll P, Inside the Primary Classroom. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980
       LA633.G350

Gamoran A, "Curriculum Standardization and Equality of Opportunity in Scottish Secondary Education, 1984-90." SocEd 69 1, 1996, pp 1-21

Gathorne-Hardy J, The Public School Phenomenon, 1597-1977. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1977
LA631.G380

Goldthorpe JH, Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain. Oxford: Clarendon, 1980
       HN400.S6G640

Gray J, McPherson AF, and Raffe D, Reconstructions of Secondary Education. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983
       LA656.M29

Gray JL and Moshinsky P, "Ability and Opportunity in English Education." In Hogben L (ed), Political Arithmetic. New York: Macmillan, 1938, pp 334-376
       HB3583.H7

Gray JL and Moshinsky P, "Ability and Educational Opportunity in Relation to Parental Occupation." In Hogben L (ed), Political Arithmetic. New York: Macmillan, 1938, pp 377-417
       HB3583.H7

Hage J and Garnier MS, "Social Class, The Hesitant State and the Expansion of Secondary Schools in Britain, 1881-1975." In Corwin RG (ed), Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization: Historical Approaches (v 9). Greenwich CT: JAI, 1990, pp 55-80

Halsey AH, Decline of Donnish Dominion: The British Academic Professions in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford, 1992
       LC191.8.G7H35

Halsey AH, Heath AF, and Ridge JM, Origins and Destinations. Oxford: Clarendon, 1980
       LC213.3.G7H340

Halsey AH and Marks S, "British Student Politics." Daed 97 1, 1968, pp 116-136

Halsey AH and Trow M, The British Academics. Cambridge: Harvard, 1971
       LA637.H21

Hargreaves DH, Social Relations in a Secondary School. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967
       LC203.H27

Hargreaves DH, The Challenge for the Comprehensive School. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982
LB1620.H370

Hoggart R, The Uses of Literacy. London: Chatto and Windus, 1959
       HD8390.H751

Honey JRdeS, Tom Brown's Universe: The Development of the English Public School in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Quadrangle, 1977

Honey JRdeS, "The Sinews of Society: The Public Schools as a System." In Muller DK, Ringer F, and Simon B (eds), The Rise of the Modern Educational System:... New York: Cambridge, 1987, pp 151-162

Hope K, As Others See Us: Schooling and Social Mobility in Scotland and the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge, 1984
       LC191.8.G72S364

Houston RA, "The Literacy Myth? Illiteracy in Scotland, 1630-1760. Past and Present, 96, 1982, pp 81-102

Houston RA, "Literacy and Society in the West, 1500-1850." SocHist 8 , 1983, pp 269-293

Houston RA, Scottish Literacy and the Scottish Identity: Illiteracy and Society in Scotland and Northern England, 1600-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge, 1985

Houston RA, Literacy in Early Modern Europe: Culture and Education, 1500-1800. New York: Longmans, 1988

Houston SE, "School Reform and Education: The Issue of Compulsory Schooling, Toronto, 1851-1871." In McDonald N and Chaiton A (eds), Egerton Ryerson and His Times. Toronto: Macmillan, 1978, pp

Hurt JS, Education in Evolution: Church, State, Society and Popular Education, 1800-1870. London: Paladin, 1972
       LA631.7.H82

Hurt JS, Elementary Schooling and the Working Classes, 1860-1918. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979
       LC5056.G7H870

Jackson B, Streaming:... London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1964
       LB3061.J16

Jackson B and Marsden D, Education and the Working Class. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962
       LA631.82.J17

Johnson EA, "The Place of Learning, Science, Vocational Training, and 'Art' in Pre-Smithian Economic Thought." JEconHist 24 1, 1964, pp 129-244

Johnson R, "Educational Policy and Social Control in Early Victorian England." Past and Present 49 , 1970, pp 96-119

Jones D, The Making of the Education System, 1851-81. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977
       LA631.7.J570

Jordan E, "'Making Good Wives and Mothers?' The Transformation of Middle-Class Girls' Education in Nineteenth-Century Britain." HistEdQ 31 4, 1991, pp 439-462

Kelsall RK and Kelsall HM, The School Teacher in England and the United States. New York: Pergamon, 1969
       LB2832K29

Kerckhoff AC, "Stratification Processes and Outcomes in England and the US." AmSocRev 39 6, 1974, pp 789-801

Kerckhoff AC, "Patterns of Educational Attainment in Great Britain." AmJSoc 80 6, 1975, pp 1428-1437

Kerckhoff AC, "Effects of Ability Grouping in British Secondary Schools." AmSocRev 51 6, 1986, pp 842-858

Kerckhoff AC, Getting Started: Transition to Adulthood in Great Britain. Boulder CO: Westview, 1990
       HQ799.G7K46

Kerckhoff AC, Diverging Pathways: Social Structure and Career Deflections. New York: Cambridge, 1993
       LC191.K350

Kerckhoff AC, Campbell RT, and Trott JM, "Dimensions of Educational and Occupational Attainment in Great Britain." AmSocRev 47 3, 1982, pp 347-364

Kerckhoff AC, Fogelman K, Crook D, and Reeder D, Going Comprehensive in England and Wales: A Study of Uneven Change. Essex UK: Woburn, 1996

Kerckhoff A C, Fogelman K, and Manlove J, "Straying Ahead: The Middle Class and School Reform in England and Wales." SocEd 70 1, 1997, pp 19-35

Kirp DL, Doing Good by Doing Little. Race and Schooling in Britain. Berkeley: California, 1979
       LC214.3.G7K570

Lacey C, Hightown Grammar. Manchester: Manchester, 1970
       LA632.L17

Laqueur TW, "English and French Education in the 19th Century."
HistEdQ 13 1, 1973, pp 53-60

Laqueur TW, Religion and Respectability: Sunday Schools and Working Class Culture, 1780-1850. New Haven: Yale, 1976
       BV1517.G7L32

Laqueur TW, "Working Class Demand and the Growth of English Elementary Education, 1750-1850." In Stone L (ed), Schooling and Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1976, pp 192-205

Laqueur TW, "The Cultural Origins of Popular Literacy in England, 1500-1850." OxRevEd 2 3, 1976, pp 255-275

Lawson J and Silver H, A Social History of Education in England. London: Methuen, 1973

Lowndes GAN, The Silent Social Revolution: An Account of the Expansion of Public Education in England and Wales, 1895-1965. London: Oxford, 1969
       LA631.L9

Marshall TH, Citizenship and Social Class. Cambridge: Cambridge, 1950
       HT609.M609

McCann P (ed), Popular Education and Socialization in the Nineteenth Century. London: Methuen, 1977
       LA631.7.P660

McCann P and Young FA, Samuel Wilderspin and the Infant School Movement. London: Croom Helm, 1982
       LA2375.G72

McElligot TJ, Secondary Education in Ireland, 1870-1921. Dublin: Irish Academic, 1981
       LA646.M330

McPherson A and Raab CD, Governing Education. Edinburgh: Edinburgh, 1988
LC93.G7M350

McPherson A and Willms JD, "Equalisation and Improvement: Some Effects of Comprehensive Reorganisation in Scotland." Sociol 21 4, 1987, pp 509-539

Mitch D, "Underinvestment in Literacy? The Potential Contribution of Government Involvement in Elementary Education to Economic Growth in Nineteenth-Century England." JEdHist 44 1, 1984, pp 57-66

Mitch D, The Rise of Literacy in Victorian England: The Influence of Private Choice and Public Policy. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania 1991

Morris N (ed), History of Education in Society: Studies in the Government and Control of Education Since 1860. London: Methuen, 1970

Mortimore P, Sammons P, Stoll L, Lewis D, and Ecob R, School Matters. Berkeley: California, 1988
       LA633.S35

Musgrave PW, Society and Education in England Since 1800. London: Methuen. 1968

Musgrove F, "Middle Class Education and Employment in the Nineteenth Century." EconHistRev 12 1, 1959, pp 99-111

O'Day R, Education and Society 1500-1800: The Social Foundations of Education in Early Modern Britain. New York: Longman, 1982
       LC189.O30

Parker DH, "'The Talent at Its Command': The First World War and The Vocational Aspect of Education, 1914-39." HistEdQ 35 3, 1995, pp 237-259

Paz DG, The Politics of Working-Class Education in Britain, 1830-1850. Manchester: Manchester, 1980
       LC5056.G7P350

Peters RS (ed), Perspectives on Plowden. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969
       LB41.P484

Pring RA, Academic Respectability and Professional Relevance. Oxford: Clarendon, 1992

Purvis J, Hard Lessons: The Lives and Education of Working-Class Women in Nineteenth Century England. Minneapolis: Minnesota, 1989
       LC5056.G7P870

Quinney V, "Workers' Education: A Confrontation at Ruskin College." AmJEd 92 1, 1983, pp 52-78

Rae J, The Public School Revolution: Britain's Independent Schools 1964-1979. London: Faber and Faber, 1981
       LA631.82.R330

Raffe D, "The 'Alternative Route' Reconsidered: Part-Time Further Education and Social Mobility in England and Wales." Sociol 13 1, 1979, pp 47-73

Raftery AE and Hout M, "Maximally Maintained Inequality: Expansion, Reform, and Opportunity in Irish Education, 1921-1975." SocEd 66 1, 1993, pp 41-62

Reader WJ, Professional Men: The Rise of the Professional Classes in Nineteenth-Century England. New York: Basic Books, 1966

Rhoades G, "Folk Norms and School Reform: English Secondary Schools." SocEd 60 1, 1987, pp 44-53

Rich EE, The Education Act, 1870. London: Longmans, 1970
       LB2581.R49

Roberts K, School Leavers and their Prospects: Youth in the Labour Market in the 1980s. London: Open University, 1984
       HD6276.G72

Rothblatt S, Tradition and Change in English Liberal Education:... London: Faber, 1967
       LA631.5.R85

Rothblatt S, The Revolution of the Dons. New York: Basic, 1968
       LF118.R84

Rothblatt S, "The Student Subculture and the Examination System in Early 19th Century Oxbridge." In Stone L (ed), The University in Society. Princeton: Princeton, 1974, pp 247-304

Rubinstein D, School Attendance in London, 1870-1904: A Social History. New York: Kelley, 1969

Rubinstein D and Simon B, The Evolution of the Comprehensive School 1926-1966. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969
       LA634.R9

Rutter M, Maughan B, Mortimore P, and Ouston J, Fifteen Thousand Hours. Cambridge: Harvard. 1979
       LA635.R50

Sanderson M, "The Grammar School and the Education of the Poor, 1786-1840." BritJEdStud 11 1, 1962, pp 28-43

Sanderson M, "Education and the Factory in Industrial Lancashire, 1780-1840." EconHistRev 20 2, 1967, pp 266-279

Sanderson M, "Literacy and Social Mobility in the Industrial Revolution in England." Past and Present 56, 1972, pp 75-104

Shipman ME, Education and Modernisation. London: Faber and Faber, 1971

Silver H, English Education and the Radicals, 1780-1850. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1975
       LA631.7.S59

Silver H, "Aspects of Neglect: The Strange Case of Victorian Popular Education." OxEdRev 3 1, 1977, pp 57-69

Simon B, The Common Secondary School. London: Laurence and Wishart, 1955
       LA635.S55

Simon B, Studies in the History of Education, 1780-1870 (v 1). London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1960
       LA631.S59

Simon B, Education and the Labour Movement, 1870-1918 (v 2). London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1974
       LA631.S59

Simon B and Bradley I (eds), The Victorian School:... Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1975
       LA634.V65

Simon J, Education and Society in Tudor England. Cambridge: Cambridge, 1966
       LA636.4.S59

Smelser NJ, "The Contest Between Family and Schooling in Nineteenth Century Britain." In Alexander J and Colomy P (eds), Differentiation and Social Change Theory: Comparative and Historical Perspectives. New York: Columbia, 1990, pp 165-186

Smelser NJ, Social Paralysis and Social Change: British Working-Class Education in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: California, 1991
       LC5056.G7S58

Stephens WB, "Illiteracy and Schooling in the Provincial Towns, 1640-1870." In Reeder DA (ed), Urban Education in the Nineteenth Century. New York: St. Martin's, 1978, pp 27-47

Stephens WB, Education, Literacy, and Society, 1830-1870: The Geography of Diversity in Provincial England. Manchester: Manchester, 1987
       HN385.S7660

Stone L (ed), Schooling and Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1976.
       LC191.S233

Stone L, "The Educational Revolution in England, 1560-1640." Past and Present 28, 1964, pp 41-80
       D1.P3

Stone L, "Literacy and Education in England, 1640-1900." Past and Present 42, 1969, pp 76-92
       D1.P3

Sutherland G, "Administrators in Education after 1870: Patronage, Professionalism, and Expertise. In Sutherland G (ed), Studies in the Growth of Nineteenth-Century Government. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1972, pp 263-285

Sutherland G, Policy-Making in Elementary Education, 1870-1895. London: Oxford, 1973
       LA633.S920

Sutherland G and Sharp S, Ability, Merit and Measurement: Mental Testing and English Education, 1800-1940. New York: Oxford, 1984
       LB3056/.G7S90

Swift DF, "Social Class, Mobility-Ideology and 11+ Success." BritJSoc 18 2, 1967, pp 165-186

Tarcov N, Locke's Education for Liberty. Chicago: Chicago, 1984
       LB475.L7T1370

Tawney RH, "The Labor Movement and Education." In Tawney RH, The British Labor Movement. New Haven: Yale, 1925, pp

Taylor W, The Secondary Modern School. London: Faber and Faber, 1963

Treiman DJ and Terrell K, "The Process of Status Attainment in the United States and Great Britain." AmJSoc 81 3, 1975, pp 563-583

Tropp A, The School Teachers. London: Heinemann, 1957
       LB1776.T83

Turner RH, "Sponsored and Contest Mobility and the School System." AmSocRev 25 6, 1960, pp 855-867

Vaughan M and Archer MS, Social Conflict and Educational Change in England and France, 1789-1848. Cambridge: Cambridge, 1971
       LA631.7.C57

Wakeford J, The Cloistered Elite: A Sociological Analysis of the English Public Boarding School. London: Macmillan, 1969
       LA635.W18

Wardle D, The Rise of the Schooled Society: The History of Formal Schooling in England. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974
       LA631.W27

Wardle D, English Popular Education, 1780-1975. Cambridge: Cambridge, 1976
       LA636.W26

Webb RK, The British Working Class Reader, 1790-1848: Literacy and Social Tension. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1955

Weinberg I, The English Public Schools. New York: Atherton, 1967
       LA635.W42

West EG, Education and the Industrial Revolution. London: Batsford, 1975
       LA631.7.W51

Whitbread N, The Evolution of the Nursery-Infant School: A History of Infant and Nursery Education in Britain, 1800-1970. London: Croom Helm, 1982

Wilkinson R, "Political Leadership and the Late Victorian Public School." BritJSoc 13 2, 1962, pp 320-330

Wilkinson R, Gentlemanly Power. Oxford: Oxford, 1964
       LC53.G7W68

Wilkinson R, Governing Elites: Studies in Training and Selection. New York: Oxford, 1969.
       HM141.W68

Willis P, Learning to Labor. New York: Columbia, 1977
       HD6276.G7W54

Willms JD and Cuttance P, "School Effects in Scottish Secondary Schools." BritJSocEd 6 3, 1985, pp 289-306

Willms JD, "Social Class Segregation and its Relationship to Pupils' Examination Results in Scotland." AmSocRev 51 2, 1986, pp 224-241

Wilson BR, "The Teacher's Role:..." BritJSoc 13 1, 1962, pp. 15- 32

Winfield I, Campbell RT, Kerckhoff AC, Everett DD, and Trott JM, "Career Processes in Great Britain and the United States." SocFor 68 1, 1989, pp 284-308

Willms JD and Echols F, "Alert and Inert Clients: The Scottish Experience of Parental Choice of Schools." EconEdRev 11 4, 1992, pp 339-350

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