The politics of knowledge in education
By: Elizabeth Rata
Series: Routledge research in education -- 76
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415517492
Subjects: EDUCATION / Aims & Objectives; Critical pedagogy; Theory of Knowledge; EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Postmodernism and education; Political aspects; EDUCATION / General
Description: "This book explores the decline of the teaching of epistemic, conceptual knowledge in schools, its replacement with everyday social knowledge, and its relation to changes in the division of labor within the global economy. It argues that the emphasis on social knowledge in postmodern and social constructionist pedagogy compounds the problem, and examines the consequences of these changes for educational opportunity and democracy itself"-- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.