Download or read book The Social Purposes of Education written by K.G. Collier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. This is Volume XXIV of twenty-eight in the Sociology of Education series. This book seeks to provide an introduction and guide to social psychology of education, looking at schools as a social space. Written in 1959 it is addressed primarily to teachers and student-teachers, taking in moral and social aspects of personality and not seeing schools as being for just academic instruction.