Bringing Knowledge Back in: From Social Constructivism to Social Realism in the Sociology of Education

ISBN-13: 9780415321211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 254 str.

Michael Young

Opis

What knowledge will citizens need in the future? In this text, the author argues that policy emphasis on lifelong learning should shift from questions of access and participation to questions of knowledge and pedagogy.

Recenzje

'Bringing Knowledge Back In provides a much-needed challenge to the pessimism of the postmodernists, to the relativism of the constructivists, and to those critical theorists who regard emancipation as but a consequence of having been exposed to emancipatory critiques...[Young] makes a very compelling case for social realism, and brings together in a most original manner a range of important epistemological and sociological perspectives, and the book relates them to a commendably wide range of current policy and practice.' - British Journal of Sociology of Education

Spis treści

Forward - Professor Hugh Lauder, University of Bath Introduction  Part 1 - Theoretical Issues  1. Rescuing the Sociology of Education from the Extremes of Voice Discourse  2. Knowledge and the Curriculum in the Sociology of Education  3. Durkheim, Vygotsky and the Curriculum of the Future  4. Structure and Activity in Durkheim’s and Vygotsky's Theories of Knowledge  5. Curriculum Studies and the Problem of Knowledge; Updating the Enlightenment?  6. Education, Knowledge and the Role of the State: The Nationalization of Educational Knowledge?  7. Rethinking the Relationship Between Sociology and Educational Policy Part 2 - Applied Studies  8. Contrasting Approaches to Qualifications and their Role in Educational Reform  9. Conceptualizing Vocational Knowledge  10. Professions, Professional Knowledge and the Question of Identity: An Analytical Framework  11. Academic/Vocational Divisions and the Problem of Knowledge in Post-Compulsory Education  12. Further Education and Training College Teachers in South Africa and the UK: A Knowledge-Based Profession of the Future?  13. Experience as Knowledge? Notes on the Recognition of Prior Learning  14. The Knowledge Question and the Future of South African Education Next Steps  15. Truth and Truthfulness in the Sociology of Educational Knowledge (With Johann Muller) Endword

O autorze

Young, Michael