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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451406603321

Autore

Whitty Geoff

Titolo

Sociology and school knowledge : curriculum theory, research and politics / / Geoff Whitty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Methuen, , 1985

ISBN

1-135-83568-3

0-585-44877-9

1-280-42903-8

0-203-47263-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Disciplina

370.19/0941

Soggetti

Education - Curricula - Great Britain

Curriculum planning - Social aspects - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Sociological approaches to the school curriculum; The curriculum as ideological practice; Curriculum studies and the sociology of school knowledge; From academic critique to radical intervention; The Great Debate and its aftermath; The politics of public examinations; Continuity and change in social and political education; Sociologists and political movements; a resume of the current issues; Notes; References; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This book looks at the ways the theoretical orientation of radical sociology of knowledge has led to its marginalization within the larger educational world. Ladwig outlines a new agenda for constructing an alternative school.