| Description |
1 online resource (113 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Library Editions: Education |
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Routledge library editions. Education.
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| Contents |
RATIONALITY, EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE Papers for a reflexive sociology of education; Copright; RATIONALITY, EDUCATION AND THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE Papers for a reflexive sociology of education; Copright; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2 EDUCATION AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT; Chapter 3 POWERS OF KNOWLEDGE AND FORMS OF THE MIND; Chapter 4 SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY AND EVERYDAY LIFE; Chapter 5 LITERARY STUDY AS LIBERAL EDUCATION AND AS SOCIOLOGY IN THE WORK OF F.R. LEAVIS; Chapter 6 TAKING SIDES AGAINST THE PROBABLE |
| Summary |
The manner in which we variously come to an understanding of our world presents problems for us all, but the unified method by which we ought best to acquire such knowledge represents the particular problem of contemporary education. This important book seeks to explore some of the underlying practises and assumptions that go to produce and sustain both such sets of activities. As a result of its concerns with the social organization of knowledge at all levels, the sociology of education has become a central form of much contemporary sociological theory. All the papers in this |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203128718 |
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0203128710 |
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1280671386 |
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9781280671388 |
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