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The Politics of Knowledge in Education: 76
Author(s): Elizabeth Rata (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 18 April 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 180 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415517494
- ISBN-13: 9780415517492
Book 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.
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About the Author
Elizabeth Rata is Associate Professor in the School of Critical Studies in Education at the University of Auckland.
