Knowledge, culture and the curriculum in Britain, 1944 to the present
<p class="first" id="d1581759e100">The school curriculum is a vital battlefield on which versions of the ‘good society’ are fought over. For much of the past five decades, the educational left has been losing that battle. Optimistic calls for a curri...
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| description | <p class="first" id="d1581759e100">The school curriculum is a vital battlefield on which versions of the ‘good society’
are fought over. For much of the past five decades, the educational left has been
losing that battle. Optimistic calls for a curriculum to support a ‘common culture’
fragmented in the face of economic, social and cultural changes. This article charts
debates about curriculum and culture, focusing on the work of the sociologist of education
Michael Young, who spent his academic life at the IOE (Institute of Education), UCL’s
Faculty of Education and Society (University College London, UK). It surveys the educational
arguments of the New Left in the 1960s, the turn towards knowledge and control and
neo-Marxism in the 1970s, the failed modernisations of the 1990s and the influence
of postmodern culture on curriculum and school subjects. Finally, it assesses recent
moves to reassert the importance of knowledge over skills and processes. The crisis
in curriculum is reflective of wider crises in British society, and, it is suggested,
Young offers a guide to what comes next.
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| spelling | doaj.art-d22bb929c6584bf881155f10e1c8b1e12023-02-23T11:14:56ZengUCL PressLondon Review of Education1474-84601474-84792022-08-01201510.14324/LRE.20.1.34Knowledge, culture and the curriculum in Britain, 1944 to the presentJohn Morgan<p class="first" id="d1581759e100">The school curriculum is a vital battlefield on which versions of the ‘good society’ are fought over. For much of the past five decades, the educational left has been losing that battle. Optimistic calls for a curriculum to support a ‘common culture’ fragmented in the face of economic, social and cultural changes. This article charts debates about curriculum and culture, focusing on the work of the sociologist of education Michael Young, who spent his academic life at the IOE (Institute of Education), UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society (University College London, UK). It surveys the educational arguments of the New Left in the 1960s, the turn towards knowledge and control and neo-Marxism in the 1970s, the failed modernisations of the 1990s and the influence of postmodern culture on curriculum and school subjects. Finally, it assesses recent moves to reassert the importance of knowledge over skills and processes. The crisis in curriculum is reflective of wider crises in British society, and, it is suggested, Young offers a guide to what comes next. </p>https://uclpress.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/LRE.20.1.34 |
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