Why Knowledge Matters in Curriculum (New Studies in Critical Realism and Education)

by Leesa Wheelahan (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $149.11

  Uses 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, and to elaborate social realism's critique of constructivism, technical-instrumentalism and neo-conservatism.