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  1. Department of Education, Rutgers University, United States of America

    Alan R. Sadovnik (Professor of Education and Sociology, Chair)

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Original language: English

Alan R. Sadovnik

He is the author ofEquity and excellence in higher education: the decline of a liberal educational reform (1994), editor ofKnowledge and pedagogy: the sociology of Basil Bernstein (1995), co-editor ofExploring society (1987), theInternational handbook of educational reform (1992),Implementing educational reform (1996),’Schools of tomorrow,’ schools of today: what happened to progressive education (1999),The encyclopedia of sociology of education (forthcoming, 2001), andFounding mothers and others: women educational leaders during the progressive era (in press, 2002) and co-author ofExploring education (1994,2000).

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Sadovnik, A.R. Basil Bernstein (1924–2000). Prospects 31, 607–620 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03220044

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