By Michael F. D. Young
During this vital ebook the writer seems again at the 'knowledge question'. What wisdom will get chosen to be established as university wisdom or as a part of the varsity curriculum, and why is it chosen? having a look ahead, younger discusses how so much constructed international locations have excessive degrees of participation in post-compulsory schooling, yet nonetheless use curricula designed for a time while purely the elite pursued extra schooling. He argues the necessity to reconsider post-16 schooling to shift concentration onto vocational schooling, school-work concerns and lifetime studying.
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The Nuffield perspective was exemplified in a speech at the British Association in September 1974 by Professor Jevons who claimed that, as science teachers ‘we are up against something in the cognitive structure of science itself ’ and that therefore science was not appropriate ‘to meet the more radical ideals of education’. This represents 28 Curriculum Change: Limits and Possibilities a very clear example of the mode of reasoning underlying the view of ‘curriculum as fact’ discussed earlier. If, however, we go back a century we can see how our contemporary conceptions of school science as a body of knowledge enshrined in textbooks, syllabuses and laboratories gradually gained ascendancy over quite different possibilities.
A more adequate theory of the curriculum would not restrict its concept of practice to that of teachers, nor would it restrict its focus on teachers’ practice to their activities in the classroom. If the school curriculum is to become an emancipatory experience for a much larger section of each cohort of students, this is going to require much greater involvement of many people who currently have no direct links with school, including parents and employers, and many activities by teachers and pupils which are not confined to the school nor, in conventional terms, are usually defined as ‘educational’ at all.
The more general question, which I shall be able to do no more than allude to here, concerns the future of educational studies in general as a universitybased discipline. From the late 1960s, sociology of education (and to a lesser extent philosophy and history), defined itself as a form of critical enquiry with the main task of exposing the rhetoric and compromises of government policies and the way they promoted divisions and inequality while frequently claiming to be dedicated to achieving the opposite.