Knowledge and Nationhood

by Denis Glesson, Denis Gleeson, Martin Bloomer, et al.

Book Overview

This text examines the implications of government policy for the curriculum, the professionalism of educational practitioners, and the training and career options of young people. It argues for a new educational agenda which recognizes the importance of intellectual investment and innovation in all areas of educational provision and which addresses the profound changes taking place in the relationship between national and global citizenship. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0304335819
• ISBN13: 9780304335817
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent fundamental critique of New Right assumptions

Although at times wordy and dense, this book should be vital reading for anyone concerned with education, politics and economic growth in the late 1990's. Although focussing on particulr issues in the UK, the critiques made here are as relevant for all post-industrial societies in which education is at once controlled by a managerial agenda while leaving its co-ordination to a so-called rational market. While celebrating individual agency, it disputes both the rational individualist and deterministic views of human behaviour, re-defining choice in terms of social networks. It is radical rather than liberal, while recognizing the need for investment in education as an economic resource it also proposes deeper reforms which support education for citzenship, and the challenges of globalization