Sociology of knowledge and education / Rob Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Rob, 1946- author.

Series:

Continuum studies in education.

Continuum Studies in Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational sociology.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; SECTION ONE: THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE; 1 For Knowledge: Tradition, Progressivism and Progress in Education - Reconstructing the Curriculum Debate; 2 Going Critical: The Problems of Problematizing Knowledge in Education Studies; 3 The Way We Live Now; 4 Hierarchical Knowledge Structures and the Canon: A Preference for Judgements; 5 Cultural Capital: Objective Probability and the Cultural Arbitrary; 6 Knowledge Structures and Intellectual Fields: Basil Bernstein and the Sociology of Knowledge; SECTION TWO: THE REGULATION OF KNOWLEDGE

7 Education, Production and Reform8 liberal-humanist Education: The Vocationalist Challenge; 9 Appropriating Competence: The Competency Movement, the New Right and the ''Culture Change'' Project; 10 The Correspondence Principle and the Marxist Sociology of Education; Conclusion: Back to the Future: The Problem of Change and the Possibilities of Advance in the Sociology of Education; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781441165176

1441165177