Sociology of knowledge and education / Rob Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Rob, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational sociology.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Physical Description:

xvi, 194 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, [2007]

Summary:

This is a provocative and challenging monograph that engages with a wide range of issues in original ways that will undoubtedly stimulate debate among educationists and sociologists. Rob Moore's collection is unique in that it brings together a vast array of areas in the sociology of knowledge and education, including epistemological, aesthetic, curricular, the world of work and educational policy, that are conventionally analysed in isolation from one another.

Contents:

Section 1 The Production of Knowledge

1 For Knowledge: Traditionally Progressivism and Progress in Education - Reconstructing the Curriculum Debate 3

2 Going Critical: The Problems of Problematizing Knowledge in Education Studies 21

3 The Way We Live Now 37

4 Hierarchical Knowledge Structures and the Canon: A Preference for Judgements 49

5 Cultural Capital: Objective Probability and the Cultural Arbitrary 69

6 Knowledge Structures and Intellectual Fields: Basil Bernstein and the Sociology of Knowledge 82

Section 2 The Regulation of Knowledge

7 Education, Production and Reform 101

8 Liberal-humanist Education: The Vocationalist Challenge / Mike Hickox 117

9 Appropriating Competence: The Competency Movement, the New Right and the 'Culture Change' Project / Lynn Jones 130

10 The Correspondence Principle and the Marxist Sociology of Education 145

Conclusion: Back to the Future: The Problem of Change and the Possibilities of Advance in the Sociology of Education 161.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [179]-187) and index.

ISBN:

9780826496508

0826496504

OCLC:

76481479