Vocational education and training in schools and ‘really useful knowledge'
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Down, B.
ORCID: 0000-0003-4843-0563
(2020)
Vocational education and training in schools and ‘really useful knowledge'.
In: Steinberg, S.R. and Down, B., (eds.)
The SAGE Handbook of Critical Pedagogies.
SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 797-810.
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Abstract
In chronicling the origins of radical education in the United Kingdom between 1790 and 1848, Richard Johnson (1979) invoked the idea of ‘really useful knowledge’ as a way of distancing educative or transformative ideologies from the processes of capitalist schooling and related forms of ‘subjection', ‘servility', ‘slavery’ and ‘surveillance’ (or ‘useless knowledge') (1979: 78). He identified four key aspects of radical education that are pertinent to this chapter. First, it involved a critique of all forms of ‘provided’ education including both state and religious. In other words, radical education was strongly oppositional and revolved around ‘a contestation of orthodoxies’ ...
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| Murdoch Affiliation(s): | Education |
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| Copyright: | © 2020 by SAGE Publications |
| URI: | http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/57831 |
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