This book explores what constitutes valid or powerful educational knowledge and the role of educational theorising in questions of educational practice. It examines the challenges facing the deliberative educational knowledge traditions of educa...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores what constitutes valid or powerful educational knowledge and the role of educational theorising in questions of educational practice. It examines the challenges facing the deliberative educational knowledge traditions of educa...Lasīt vairāk
The volume contains three seminal contribution that Manual Castells made during his time in South Africa, along with new and previously published insights on how he has shaped research and thinking on higher education and development in Africa. M...Lasīt vairāk
Reclaiming Knowledge asserts the necessity of a strong view of knowledge for a robust sociology of knowledge, for both researching the curriculum and developing policy. Divided into four sections or investigations, the central question under...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents a new way for educators at all levels - from early years to university - to think about curriculum priorities. It focuses on the curriculum as a form of specialised knowledge, optimally designed to enable students to gain access...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents a new way for educators at all levels - from early years to university - to think about curriculum priorities. It focuses on the curriculum as a form of specialised knowledge, optimally designed to enable students to gain access...Lasīt vairāk
Basil Bernstein is arguably one of the most important educational theorists of the late 20th century. Whilst most academics and students in sociology of education know of Bernstein, few can claim to fully understand the scope and power of his work, w...Lasīt vairāk
It has long been recognised that specialised knowledge is at the core of what distinguishes professions from other occupations. The privileged status of professions in most countries, however, together with their claims to autonomy and access to spe...Lasīt vairāk
It has long been recognised that specialised knowledge is at the core of what distinguishes professions from other occupations. The privileged status of professions in most countries, however, together with their claims to autonomy and access to spe...Lasīt vairāk
Basil Bernstein was said to be an analyst of power rather than a prescriber of policy in issues of effective democracy and equity, particularly in education. However, his sociology has come to be interpreted in a number of ways, both theoretical an...Lasīt vairāk
Muller (education. U. of Cape Town, South Africa) argues that constructivism, as a broad anti-epistemological movement, has taken a perfectly reasonable set of theses about the social constitution of knowledge, and radicalized in into a set of skepti...Lasīt vairāk
