Knowledge and Control: New Explorations in Educational Sociology

Author: (English) M.F.D. Young
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: The shift from a traditional focus on allocation and educational organizations to a focus on curriculum and teaching issues is a research trend followed by researchers in English-speaking countries. The introduction of this book into China marks the internationalization of Chinese educational sociology. This book brings curriculum and teaching issues into the research of educational sociology, marking the arrival of a new era in the study of educational sociology. It views the organization of knowledge in the curriculum as a social construction; the three information systems of curriculum, teaching, and evaluation are the forms of realization of the encoding of educational knowledge, and their implementation process reflects how a society selects, categorizes, allocates, and transmits public knowledge. The stratification of knowledge reflects the relationship between the allocation of knowledge and the allocation of social power. Researching these issues has strong practical, theoretical, and policy implications for the curriculum reform of basic education in our country. From this book, we can see that: , knowledge should be applied in the curriculum, involving the selection, organization, and evaluation of knowledge. Second, educational knowledge is realized through the three information systems of curriculum, teaching, and evaluation, reflecting the principles of power allocation and social control. Third, the stratification of knowledge undoubtedly reflects the curriculum knowledge of schools, which is the most focused area in educational sociology.