Full Description
Knowledge Production, Policy and Practice in Education: Social Realist Explorations of Curriculum, Teaching and Research brings together theoretical and empirical enquiries into curricula, pedagogy and assessment, informed by the influential traditions of social realism and Basil Bernstein's sociology of education. The edited volume provides tools for understanding persistent educational inequalities and approaches to inclusive educational systems.
The book is an edited collection of chapters by scholars of the sociology of education who focus on knowledge, curriculum and pedagogy working in Africa, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America. Each chapter extends scholarly debate around knowledge production and exchange, knowledge and the curriculum, and knowledge and professional practice. Collectively, the chapters offer an insight into the dynamic relationships among educational systems, policies, teacher education and teaching practice.
Ultimately enabling readers to see how social realist ideas around knowledge can be employed across different scales and contexts of educational practice, this book will be of interest to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of the sociology of education, social realism, and curriculum studies. Education professionals, including teacher educators, and those working in policy will also benefit from this book.
Contents
1 Introduction: Mapping the explorations
Grace Healy, Di Swift and Brian Barrett
Part I: Knowledge production and practice
2 Against the closing of educational thought: Open concepts and educational research
Brian Barrett and Jim Hordern
3 Exploring Bernstein's conception of 'framing' for researching students' epistemological access in digitally-mediated learning environments
Lara Karassellos
4 Developing recognition for teachers' intellectual work: A view on recontextualisation that starts from the teacher
Grace Healy
Part II: Knowledge and the curriculum
5 Can history textbooks be a source of 'powerful knowledge'?: The case of Jerzy Popiełuszko in Poland
Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych and Daria Hejwosz-Gromkowska
6 Re-imagining the curriculum: A case study of the knowledge turn in New Zealand and Flanders
Jasper Nijlunsing, Elizabeth Rata, Astrid Geudens, Tim Surma, Daniel Muijs and Claudio Vanhees
7 An analysis of the pedagogic discourse in a Brazilian curriculum proposal for Portuguese language teaching
Cláudia Valentina Assumpção Galian and Émerson de Pietri
Part III: Knowledge in professional contexts
8 Challenging genericism: What is at stake for curriculum and teacher development?
Christine Counsell and Grace Healy
9 Finnish primary teachers amidst the power struggles of the pedagogic device
Amna Khawaja
10 Roles of vocational teachers and teacher educators in knowledge production and exchange
Gavin Moodie and Leesa Wheelahan
11 Pedagogy, pedagogic relations and professionalisation in teacher education
Di Swift
Part IV: Conclusion
12 Furthering our explorations of knowledge production policies and practices
Grace Healy, Di Swift and Brian Barrett
