Sociology and School Knowledge Curriculum Theory, Research and Politics

• Main Author: Whitty, Geoff
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 1985; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
• Subjects: Curriculum Studies; Education; Education-Curricula-Great Britain; Educational Research; Educational sociology; Sociology of Education; Theory of Education; Lawton's Work; Secretary Of State; Traditional Grammar School Curriculum; Social Reproduction; Contemporary Societies; Vice Versa; English Educational System; Industrial Trainers; CSE Board; Left Sociologists; Conventional Academic Curriculum; Broader Political Struggles; Humanist Lobby; Working Class Curriculum; GCE Examination; Political Education Movement; Norman St John Stevas; Executive Elite School; Curriculum Studies Department; Curriculum Studies Field; St John Brooks; Curriculum Field; Common Culture Curriculum; Affluent Professional School; Social Studies Movement
• ISBN: 0415789516; 9780415789523; 9780415789516; 0415789524
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315222707

The rise of a radical ‘new’ sociology of education during the early 1970s focused attention on the nature of school knowledge. Although this new approach was set to revolutionize the subject, within a few years, many people considered these developments an eccentric interlude, with little relevance...