Sociology of Education

The course sets the theoretical framework for understanding the socio-historical structuring of sociology in the field of education. Starting from modern knowledge systems, from the transition of the 17th to the 18th century, the subject addresses the ways in which knowledge and its organization and institutionalization shape subjects, social, political and economic practices, and thus (re)produce different regulative ideas, inscribed in the theories, policies and practices of education. Against this background we will analyse and conceptualise various regulative ideas, their shifts, ruptures and continuities, and the ways in which the problems of individual and social life shape a set of educational issues and problematizations over time.
The student learns the basic concepts of sociology of education and uses them to problematize selected relationships of education and:
- Democracy,
- social inequalities and justice,
- economics,
- families,
- modern educational policy and practice,
- gender, … .

• Durkheim, E. (2009): Vzgoja in sociologija. Ljubljana: Krtina. COBISS.SI-ID - 248691968
- Narava in vloga vzgoje (str. 9–31)
- Pedagogika in sociologija (str. 51–68)
• Bourdieu, P. (2002). Praktični čut I. Ljubljana: SH. COBISS.SI-ID - 116673280
- Strukture, habitus, prakse (str. 89–111)
• Biesta, Gert. 2016. Good education in an age of measurement : ethics, politics, democracy. London ; New York : Routledge. COBISS.SI-ID - 104606467
- What is education for (str. 10–22)
- Evidence-based education between science and democracy (str. 28–49)
• Furet, F., Ozouf, M. (1990). Šola, stari režim in revolucija. V: Šolarjevo ogledalo (zbornik). Ljubljana: DZS (str. 79–114). COBISS.SI-ID – 15727104
• Gaber, S. (2001). Konteksti demokratičnega izobraževanja – spremna študija. V: Gutmann, A., Demokratično izobraževanje. Ljubljana: SF (str. 299–324). COBISS.SI-ID – 4437321
• Gauchet, M. (2011). O pogojih vzgoje. Ljubljana: Krtina. COBISS.SI-ID – 258001408. - Družina proti vzgoji? (str. 11–53)
• Kos, Ž., Tašner, V., Gaber, S. (2019): Schools and the collaborative commons. V: Teorija in praksa. Let. 56/3 (str. 896-910). COBISS.SI-ID – 12676169
• Sadovnik R., A. (2007). Theory and Research in the Sociology of Education, V: Sociology of Education. Abingdon: Routledge (str. 3–21). COBISS.SI-ID – 7062857
• Kodelja Z. (1995). Laična šola. Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga. COBISS.SI-ID - 55604992
- Nevtralna šola, vrednote (str. 109–137)
• Mayer, W. J. (2007). The effects of education as an institution. V: Sociology of education. Abingdon: Routledge (str. 115–128). COBISS.SI-ID – 7062857

The reading list, its mandatory and elective part, will be updated yearly and published in the faculty’s information system.