Why knowledge matters for the schools of the 21st century?
In this paper I document the trend in both educational policy and thought in England. Instead of seeing knowledge as a source of freedom as the great philosopher of the Enlightenment would have argued, there is a worrying tendency to trust experience and see knowledge as something to be “freed from”...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Fundação Carlos Chagas (FCC) |
| Repositorio: | Cadernos de Pesquisa (Fundação Carlos Chagas. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.publicacoes.fcc.org.br:article/3533 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://publicacoes.fcc.org.br/cp/article/view/3533 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Conhecimento Currículo Escolar Teoria do Currículo Inglaterra. Acesso ao conhecimento Currículo Escola Knowledge School Curriculum Curriculum Theory England Conocimiento Teoría del Currículo Connaissance Curriculum Scolaire Théorie du Cursus Angleterre. |
| Sumario: | In this paper I document the trend in both educational policy and thought in England. Instead of seeing knowledge as a source of freedom as the great philosopher of the Enlightenment would have argued, there is a worrying tendency to trust experience and see knowledge as something to be “freed from”. I will explore an alternative to this “fear of knowledge” with the idea that the curriculum of schools should represent all a student or pupil’s entitlement to what I will refer to as “powerful knowledge”. This requires a clarification of both concepts, “power” and “knowledge”. To do this I shall make reference to the concept of “powerful knowledge” as a curriculum principle, the idea that all pupils are “entitled to access to powerful knowledge” and that it is important to distinguish between a national curriculum and a school curriculum and the concepts of curriculum and pedagogy. |
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