Critical Perspectives on the Organization and Improvement of Schooling

Book Overview

Major "paradigm shifts"-replacing one "world view" with another- regarding what constitutes appropriate knowledge do not happen over- night. Centuries usually intervene in the process. Even minor shifts- admitting alternative world views into the domain of legitimate knowledge- producing theory and practice-require decades of controversy, especially, it seems to us, in the field of education. It has only been in the last 20 years or so that the educational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9401083770
• ISBN13: 9789401083775
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"