Full Description
This key volume is both timely and important in bringing together for the first time seminal papers and new material to examine an increasingly influential school of thought: realist sociology of education that places knowledge at its heart. This volume covers issues in the sociology of knowledge, the educational system and policy, professional autonomy, vocational education, educational research and teaching, as well as the nature of such disciplines as cultural studies, English, science and the arts. The chapters also directly address the nature of sociology of education itself. The realist position developed in the book challenges two major currents of thought that have for a long time been prominent and influential in sociology and education: postmodernism and progressivism/constructivism. This well-edited collection of papers is provocative and original in that it represents a sustained, collective critique that offers a genuine alternative to these current orthodoxies.
Contents
Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Coalitions of the Mind; Chapter 1: Reconceptualizing Knowledge and the Curriculum in the Sociology of Education; Rob Moore and Michael Young; Chapter 2: Analyzing Knowledge Claims and Practices: Languages of Legitimation; Karl Maton; Chapter 3: 'Voice Discourse' and the Problem of Knowledge and Identity; Rob Moore and Johan Muller; Chapter 4: Promoting Official Pedagogic Identities: The Sacred and the Profane; John Beck; Chapter 5: Competency-based Training, Powerful Knowledge and the Working Class; Leesa VVheelahan; Chapter 6: Knowledge and Truth in the Sociology of Education; Michael Young and Johan Muller; Chapter 7: Knowledge Structures and the Canon: A Preference for Judgements; Rob Moore; Chapter 8: Canons and Progress in the Arts and Humanities: Knowers and Gazes; Karl Maton; References.
