English Primary Education

First published in 1998. This is Volume XII of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. This is part one of a study looking at primary schools from a sociological descriptive view kickstarted by the 1963 review of primary education and its transition into secondary education, by the Central Advisory Council for Education in England by Lady Plowden. This volume seeks to fill a gap by being a single, systematic, comprehensive work which combines a general sociological description of English primary education with a survey of the results of sociological investigations in this field. Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 An Analysis of Primary Schools as Social Institutions; Chapter 3 Nursery and Infant Schools; Chapter 4 The Social Structure of Junior Schools; Chapter 5 Social Processes in Junior Schools; Chapter 6 A Note on Minority Schools; Chapter 7 From Primary Schools to Secondary Schools; Chapter 8 Adults in Primary Schools; Chapter 9 A Comment on Plowden;