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.
| ISBN: | 9780415851411 |
| Publication date: | 5th June 2013 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Rata |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 162 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Education |
| Genres: |
Philosophy and theory of education |