Towards Powerful Educational Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9781032712789 / Twarda / 2024 / 113 str.

Opis

This book explores what constitutes valid or powerful educational knowledge and the role of educational theorising in questions of educational practice. 

Spis treści

Preface

Jim Hordern, Johan Muller and Zongyi Deng

 

Introduction: Towards powerful educational knowledge? Addressing the challenges facing educational foundations, curriculum theory and Didaktik

Jim Hordern, Johan Muller and Zongyi Deng

 

1. Rethinking the foundations: towards powerful professional knowledge in teacher education in the USA and England          

Brian Barrett and Jim Hordern

 

2. A pedagogic compact: retrieving ‘powerful’ educational knowledge from Didaktik and curriculum studies           

Johan Muller and Ursula Hoadley

 

3.Constructing ‘powerful’ curriculum theory

Zongyi Deng

 

4. The shifting powers of educational knowledge: power relations between sociology and economics of education       

Stephanie Allais and Yael Shalem

 

5. Analysing micro-credentials in higher education: a Bernsteinian analysis           

Leesa Wheelahan and Gavin Moodie

 

6. Powerful educational knowledge through Subject Didactics and General Subject Didactics. Recent developments in German-speaking countries

Helmut Johannes Vollmer

 

Afterword: Bridging divides in educational theory? 

Michael Young

 

O autorze

Jim Hordern is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth and Visiting Professor at the University of Derby. His research interests are in educational knowledge and practice.

 

Johan Muller is Professor Emeritus of Curriculum in the School of Education, and a senior research scholar at the University of Cape Town. He has published in the area of curriculum theory and policy, focusing on schooling and higher education. His most recent book, Curriculum and the Specialisation of Knowledge with Michael Young, was published in 2016.

 

Zongyi Deng is Professor of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the Institute of Education (IOE), University College London (UCL). He is also an executive editor of the Journal of Curriculum Studies (JCS) and has held faculty positions at Nanyang Technological University and the University of Hong Kong. His interest areas include curriculum content or subject matter, curriculum theory, didactics (Didaktik), curriculum policy and reform, and comparative and international education.