1st Edition

Education, Professionalization and Social Representations On the Transformation of Social Knowledge

Edited By Mohamed Chaib, Berth Danermark, Staffan Selander Copyright 2011
276 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book presents a broad range of research related to how social knowledge is shared, transmitted and transformed in the context of education and professional formation. The chapters of this edited collection reflect different theoretical and empirical approaches to that form of common-sense knowledge called social representations, the theory of which was developed almost a half-century ago by... Read more
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Biography

Mohamed Chaib is Professor of Education and Director of the National Centre for Lifelong Learning (Encell) at the School of Education and Communication at Jönköping University, Sweden.

Berth Danermark is Professor of Sociology at the The Swedish Institute for Disability Research, School of Health and Medical Sciences at Örebro University, Sweden.

Staffan Selander is Professor of Didactics in the Department of Didactic Science and Early Childhood Education at the Stockholm Institute of Education, Sweden.