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The School at the Frontiers of Modernity
Author(s): Maria Manuel Vieira (Author, Editor), José Resende (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 12 May 2006
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 183 pages
- ISBN-10: 1904303765
- ISBN-13: 9781904303763
Book Description
The aim of this book is to discuss the emergent forms of educational processes observed in the context of late modernity, mobilizing the contribution of the social sciences. Through a plurality of educational subjects, this publication provides an overview of the contribution of schooling to the construction of late modernity.
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About the Author
José Resende received his Doctorate in Sociology from the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences, New University of Lisbon in 2001, and is presently a Researcher at Forum Sociologico at the Permanent School Observatory of Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon. Maria Manuel Vieira received her Doctorate in Sociology in 1998. She is Associate Researcher, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, and Former Vice-President of the Portuguese Sociological Association.
