This volume covers issues in the sociology of knowledge, the educational system and policy, professional autonomy, vocational education, educational research an
What should we teach in our schools and vocational education and higher education institutions? Is theoretical knowledge still important? This book argues that
In 2008 the first in a series of symposia established a ‘social realist’ case for ‘knowledge’ as an alternative to the relativist tendencies of the cons
We live in ‘knowledge societies’ and work in ‘knowledge economies’, but accounts of social change treat knowledge as homogeneous and neutral. While know