Knowledge and Control: New Directions in the Sociology of Education

303 Pages·1971·9.339 MB·English

by  Michael F.D. Young (Ed.)

KNOWLEDGE
AND
CONTROL

KNOWLEDGE
AND
CONTROL
of
New Directions for the Socioloay Education
Edited by
MICHAEL F. D. YOUNG
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First printing 1971
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgements vi
INTRODUCTION
Knowledae and Control MICHAEL F. D. YOUNG
PART ONE
CURRICULA, TEACHING AND LEARNING AS THE ORGANIZATION OF
KNOWLEDGE
cif
I • An Approach to the Stuc!J Curricula as Socially Oraanized Knowledae.
MICHAEL F. D. YOUNG 19
cif
2 • On the Classification and Framin9 Educational Knowledae.
BASIL BERNSTEIN 47
3 • Teachin9 and Learnin9 as the Oraanization cif Knowledae.
GEOFFREY M. ESLAND 70
PART TWO
SOCIAL DEFINITIONS OF KNOWLEDGE
4 • The Corpus cif Knowledae as a Normative Order.
ALAN F. BLUM 117
!j • Classroom Knowledae.
NELL KEDDIE 133
6 • Intellectual Field and Creative Project.
PIERRE BOURDIEU 161
PART THREE
COGNITIVE STYLES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
7 • Systems cif Education and Systems cif Thouaht.
PIERRE BOURDIEU 189
8 • African Traditional Thouaht andWestern Science.
ROBIN HORTON 2o8
9 • The Manaaement cif Knowledae: a Critique cif the Use cif Tjpoloaies in the
cif
Sociolo9)' Education.
lOAN DAVIES 267
Notes on Contributors 289

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The idea of this book was first conceived in a discussion between Pierre
Bourdieu, Basil Bernstein and myself after the Durham Conference of the
British Sociological Association, of April 1970. It would certainly never have
got off the ground without the constant support, encouragement and advice
from Basil Bernstein. I should also like to thank Pat Dyehouse, Marion and
Freda of the administrative staff of the department of Sociology of Education,
University of London Institute of Education, for the calmness, competence and
good humour with which they completed the secretarial work involved.
My thanks are due to Basil Bernstein, Geoffrey Esland and Nell Keddie for
allowing me to use their unpublished manuscripts, and to Alan Blum, Pierre
Bourdieu, loan Davies and Robin Horton for allowing me to reprint their papers.
I should also like to thank Roger Brown, editor of the British Sociological
Association Conference papers ( 1970) , for allowing me to use ideas first developed
in a paper given at that conference to prepare the paper for this volume.
I should also like to acknowledge my debt to the Editor of Sociology and the
British Sociological Association (for permission to reprint loan Davies's paper),
the editors of Social Science Information and the International Social Science
Journal, UNESCO and the International Social Science Council (for permission
to reprint Pierre Bourdieu's papers), the editors and publishers (Appleton
Century-Crofts) of Theoretical Sociology (for permission to reprint Alan Blum's
paper), the editor of Africa and the International Mrican Institute (for permis
sion to reprint Robin Horton's paper).
Michael F. D. Young
London, July 1971

One day young captain Jonathan,
he was eighteen at the time,
Captured a Pelican
On an island in the Far East.
In the morning,
This Pelican
of Jonathan's,
Laid a white egg
and out of it came
A Pelican
Astonishingly like the first.
And this second Pelican
laid in its turn
A white egg,
From which came inevitably
Another
who did the same again.
This sort of thing can go on
A very long time,
if you don't make an omelette.
ROBERT DESNOS: Chantefleurs, Chantefables
By permission of Librairie Griind, Paris. Translated from the French by
Elizabeth McGovern.
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