1st Edition
Sociology, Curriculum Studies and Professional Knowledge New Perspectives on the Work of Michael Young
This volume brings together an international set of contributors in education research, policy and practice to respond to the influence the noted academic Professor Michael Young has had on sociology, curriculum studies and professional knowledge over the past fifty years, and still has on the field to this day. It provides a critical analysis of his work and the uses to which it has been put in the UK and internationally, discussing implications for debates on the purpose of education and how school curricula, as well as programmes in other educational settings, could be run and teaching undertaken, based on his contribution.
Following Michael’s long and distinguished career – dating back to before Knowledge and Control: New Directions for the Sociology of Education, which Michael edited in 1971 – recent years have seen an upsurge in both academic and policy interest in his work, including the new concern he expressed for knowledge in his 2007 book Bringing Knowledge Back In.
The book concludes with an appreciation and a response to the authors from Michael Young and a Coda from Charmian Cannon, who was on the Institute of Education panel that appointed Michael to his post in 1967. This timely book is a unique critique and celebration, written by experts whose own careers have been affected by Michael, and will appeal to all those with an interest in the work of Michael Young.
David Guile, David Lambert and Michael J Reiss
Consistency, contradiction and ceaseless enquiry in the work of Michael Young
Section 1: Sociology of Education
Geoff Whitty
Taking subject knowledge out and putting it back in again? A journey in the company of Michael Young
Johan Muller
The New Organon of Michael Young
John Beck
‘Beyond the present and the particular’: Similarities and differences between Michael Young’s and Charles Bailey’s arguments for the public provision of liberating forms of education for all
Antonia Kupfer and Hugh Lauder
Powerful sociological knowledge? An analysis of the British Sociological Association and the sociology school curriculum in England
Elizabeth Rata
A Durkeimian approach to knowledge and democracy
Jan Derry
What is educationally worthwhile knowledge? Revisiting the case for powerful knowledge
Wen Wen and Weihe Xie
Michael Young’s influence on the sociology of education
Section 2: Curriculum Studies
John Morgan
Michael Young and the crises of capitalism
Michael J Reiss
The curriculum arguments of Michael Young and John White
David Lambert
The road to Future 3: The case of geography
David Scott
Powerful knowledge and the formal curriculum
Tim Oates
Powerful knowledge – moving us all forwards or backwards?
Lyn Yates
‘Making’ and ‘taking’ problems: The curriculum field and Michael Young
Section 3: Professional/Vocational Knowledge and Education
David Guile
Professional knowledge in the 21st century: ‘Immaterial’ labour and its challenge for the ‘trinary’
Ken Spours
From the ‘general’ to the ‘organic’ intellect: Reflections on the concepts of specialization and the curriculum of the future
Stephanie Allais
Learning from qualification reform: The value and limitations of the notion of powerful knowledge
Leesa Wheelahan
Theorising the conditions for theoretical knowledge in vocational education
Jeanne Gamble
Conceptualising vocational knowledge: The high road and the middle road
Section 4
Michael Young
An appreciation and a response
Charmian Cannon
Coda
Biography
David Guile is Professor of education and work at the UCL Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
David Lambert is Professor of geography education at the UCL Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
Michael Reiss is Professor of science education at the UCL Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
