Education as a System: An Interview with Raf Vanderstraeten
Abstract
Both inside and outside of academic circles there is a debate on the possibilities of education, its future and its relations with politics and economy. In the following unreleased interview, Raf Vanderstraeten, director of the Center for Social Theory at Ghent University (Belgium) and an important educational sociologist, explores these issues from the social systems theory and points out its potentials and limitations on the analysis of modern educational system.Keywords:
Educational system, Social systems theory, Sociology of education, Public policies, Inclusion and exclusionReferences
Vanderstraeten, R. (2001). The School Class as an Interaction Order. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 22(2), 267-277.
