Knowledge and Identity: Concepts and Applications in Bernstein's Sociology

by Brian Davies, John Fitz, Gabrielle Ivinson

Book Overview

What in the digital era is knowledge? Who has knowledge and whose knowledge has value?

Postmodernism has introduced a relativist flavour into educational research such that big questions about the purposes of education have tended to be eclipsed by minutiae. Changes in economic and financial markets induce a sense that we are also experiencing an intellectual credit crunch. Societies can no longer afford to think about the role...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415582091
• ISBN13: 9780415582094
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"