安妮特·拉鲁（Annette Lareau），加州大学社会学学士（1974），伯克利大学社会学硕士（1978），伯克利大学社会学博士（1984），1990-2005年为天普大学社会学教授，2005-2008年为马里兰大学社会学教授，2008年被聘为宾夕法尼亚大学社会学教授，2012年当选为美国社会学学会主席。其主要研究领域为社会分层、家庭教育、民族志方法、儿童，主要关注非裔美国人与欧裔美国人的日常生活研究。代表作为《不平等的童年》、《家庭优势》等。 吴重涵，北京大学博士，二级教授，享受国务院特殊津贴专家，江西省教育科学研究所所长，江西省教育科学规划办公室主任，江西省教育学会常务副会长，《教育学术月刊》杂志主编，研究方向：学校办学合法性策略，现代中小学学校制度与家校合作。代表性著作《军事教育结构研究》、《普通民办高校的合法性策略研究》，《国际视野与本土...(展开全部)

This new edition contextualizes Lareau's original ethnography in a discussion of the most pressing issues facing educators at the beginning of the new millennium.

Images of Chinese teens with their heads buried in books for hours on end, preparing for high-stakes exams, dominate understandings of Chinese youth in both China and the West. But what about young people who are not on the path to academic success? What happens to youth who fail the state's high-stakes exams? What many—even in China—don't realize is that up to half of the nati...(展开全部)

Images of Chinese teens with their heads buried in books for hours on end, preparing for high-stakes exams, dominate understandings of Chinese youth in both China and the West. But what about young people who are not on the path to academic success? What happens to youth who fail the state's high-stakes exams? What many—even in China—don't realize is that up to half of the nati...(展开全部)

“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cortázar’s own writing career as they are about literature and the historical moment in which h...(展开全部)

“I want you to know that I’m not a critic or theorist, which means that in my work I look for solutions as problems arise.” So begins the first of eight classes that the great Argentine writer Julio Cortázar delivered at UC Berkeley in 1980. These “classes” are as much reflections on Cortázar’s own writing career as they are about literature and the historical moment in which h...(展开全部)