Despite improvements in girls relative academic success at the school leaving level, and despite suggestions in the press that boys are now the underachievers, girls remain second-class citizens in education and beyond.

Despite improvements in girls relative academic success at the school leaving level, and despite suggestions in the press that boys are now the underachievers, girls remain second-class citizens in education and beyond.

New technologies are altering the relationship between knowledge, power and learning. This book considers the influence of 'information age' on changing relationship between power and knowledge and how this affects learning in a range of situations, from the school to the learning organization and from the musical conservatoire to the workplace.

New technologies are altering the relationship between knowledge, power and learning. This book considers the influence of 'information age' on changing relationship between power and knowledge and how this affects learning in a range of situations, from the school to the learning organization and from the musical conservatoire to the workplace.

This textbook is founded on the idea of learning as knowledge construction and the implications of this for the nature of knowledge and for the way it is acquired.

The first section examines the nature of knowledge from several perspectives. The dominant theme is that views of learning closely relate to views of knowledge. The second section considers what it is to be knowledgeable. Expertise and types of knowledge are considered using examples from different phases of education and subject areas. The final part of the book focuses on learning within domains and what this means from...