Knowledge, Curriculum and Qualifications for South African Further Education
Author: Michael Young
Publisher: HSRC Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780796921543
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Curriculum Inquiry in South African Higher Education
Author: Eli Bitzer
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1920338640
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"At once evocative and suggestive, this exemplary book gives me hope that educators and scholars across the world will seize the opportunity to self-reflect and enlarge and enrich both their research and their practice in ways that will markedly contribute to the revitalisation of the higher learning in the twenty-first century. The urgency of the need for revitalisation of both research and practice in this domain of inquiry cannot be overstated." Prof Clifton Conrad ? University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Researching Transitions in Lifelong Learning
Author: John Field
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-06-03
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1134005571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearching Transitions in Lifelong Learning presents new research from Britain, Australia and North America. The authors include leading scholars with established international reputations - such as Kathryn Ecclestone, Norton Grubb, David Boud and Gert Biesta - as well as emerging researchers with fresh and sometimes challenging perspectives.
Critical Conversations on Knowledge, Curriculum and Epistemic Justice
Author: Margaret Blackie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-12-03
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1040223613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection that celebrates the legacy of Suellen Shay, is located in Higher Education Studies and Development in South Africa, the country where she lived and worked. The book has international reach as the authors engage in contemporary debates around how to think about knowledge in education development work, in professional education and more recently around the call to decolonise the curriculum. Contributions draw on the social realist tradition in the sociology of education to discuss how curricula are or should be structured, in order to make key forms of knowledge accessible to students. The collection includes theoretical debates related to the field of higher education studies as well as chapters that analyse curricula and assessment in engineering, the health professions, tourism and music – including the impact on curricula of interdisciplinary collaboration across different types of institution and knowledge. This book will be important for scholars wanting to transform how universities and colleges think about curriculum design and practice. It was originally published as a special issue of Teaching in Higher Education.
Why Knowledge Matters in Curriculum
Author: Leesa Wheelahan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0415522005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat should we teach in our schools and vocational education and higher education institutions? Is theoretical knowledge still important? This book argues that providing students with access to knowledge should be the raison d’être of education. Its premise is that access to knowledge is an issue of social justice because society uses it to conduct its debates and controversies. Theoretical knowledge is increasingly marginalised in curriculum in all sectors of education, particularly in competency-based training which is the dominant curriculum model in vocational education in many countries. This book uses competency-based training to explore the negative consequences that arise when knowledge is displaced in curriculum in favour of a focus on workplace relevance. The book takes a unique approach by using the sociology of Basil Bernstein and the philosophy of critical realism as complementary modes of theorising to extend and develop social realist arguments about the role of knowledge in curriculum. Both approaches are increasingly influential in education and the social sciences and the book will be helpful for those seeking an accessible introduction to these complex subjects. Why Knowledge Matters in Curriculumis a key reading for those interested in the sociology of education, curriculum studies, work-based learning, vocational education, higher education, adult and community education, tertiary education policy and lifelong learning more broadly.
Higher Education in South Africa
Author: Eli Bitzer
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Published: 2009-10-01
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1920338144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHigher Education in South Africa should be of considerable interest to higher education researchers outside of South Africa, as well as within, for the general and comparative assessments it makes. The South African higher education researchers included within its covers have clearly engaged with research and writing from many parts of the world, which they have then applied to make sense of their own condition. - Malcolm Tight Lancaster University, UK
Knowledge and Identity
Author: Gabrielle Ivinson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-11-23
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1136873473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat in the digital era is knowledge? Who has knowledge and whose knowledge has value? Drawing on aspects of Bernstein’s work that have attracted an international following for many years, the international contributors to this book raise questions about knowledge production and subjectivity in times dominated by market forces, privatisation and new forms of state regulation.
Sociology, Curriculum Studies and Professional Knowledge
Author: David Guile
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-08-07
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1317198182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together an international set of contributors in education research, policy and practice to respond to the influence the noted academic Professor Michael Young has had on sociology, curriculum studies and professional knowledge over the past fifty years, and still has on the field to this day. It provides a critical analysis of his work and the uses to which it has been put in the UK and internationally, discussing implications for debates on the purpose of education and how school curricula, as well as programmes in other educational settings, could be run and teaching undertaken, based on his contribution. Following Michael’s long and distinguished career – dating back to before Knowledge and Control: New Directions for the Sociology of Education, which Michael edited in 1971 – recent years have seen an upsurge in both academic and policy interest in his work, including the new concern he expressed for knowledge in his 2007 book Bringing Knowledge Back In. The book concludes with an appreciation and a response to the authors from Michael Young and a Coda from Charmian Cannon, who was on the Institute of Education panel that appointed Michael to his post in 1967. This timely book is a unique critique and celebration, written by experts whose own careers have been affected by Michael, and will appeal to all those with an interest in the work of Michael Young.
Knowledge, Curriculum, and Preparation for Work
Author: Stephanie Allais
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-04-16
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9004365400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Knowledge, Curriculum, and Preparation for Work, the editors offer a timely collection of chapters approaching debates on economic and social change and employment within different types of economies. Considering questions of knowledge and curriculum, these works interrogate ways of thinking about relationships between different forms of work and education. The focus is both on the curriculum – the ways in which different types of knowledge affect the quality and organization of curricula that are intended to prepare for work – and the factors influencing and constraining what education can do to prepare for work, as well as how these factors shape and limit the role of educational preparation for work.
Curriculum Studies in South Africa
Author: W. Pinar
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010-02-15
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0230105505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile much has been written about South African education, now, for the first time, gathered in one collection are glimpses of South African curriculum studies described by six distinctive points of view.
