Parents and the state: how has social research informed education reforms? / Miriam David -- Not in front of the children: responding to right wing agendas on sexuality and education / Liz Kelly -- Feminism, education and the new right / Madeleine Arnot -- Special needs: personal trouble or public issue? / Len Barton & Mike Oliver -- On the specificity of racism / Ahmed Gurnah -- Teachers' responses to the reshaping of primary education / Andrew Pollard -- Staying on and staying in: comprehensive schooling in the 1990s / David Halpin -- Whose choice of schools?: making sense of city technology colleges / Tony Edwards, Sharon Gewirtz & Geoff Whitty -- Reconstructing professionalism: ideological struggle in initial teacher education / John Furlong -- The reform of higher education / Geoffrey Walford -- Recovering from Pyrrhic victory?: quality, relevance and impact in the sociology of education / Roger Dale
