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A grand day out: towards a mode of interrogation of non‐school pedagogic sites
Author(s) -
Dowling Paul,
Brown Andrew
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
the curriculum journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.843
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1469-3704
pISSN - 0958-5176
DOI - 10.1080/09585170050045227
Subject(s) - interrogation , sociology , mode (computer interface) , pedagogy , focus (optics) , media studies , mathematics education , social science , political science , psychology , law , computer science , physics , optics , operating system
Interest is increasingly being taken in educational sites which extend or which are located beyond the school. These include sites associated with developing information and communications technologies and mass media organizations as well as institutions of longer standing, such as museums, galleries and so forth. In this article we shall deploy a sociological framework originally developed for the analysis of school texts to such non‐school sites. Our focus will include considerations of heritage and conservation sites in the form of castles and zoos. We contend that in operating in terms of both pedagogic and exchange relations, such sites may have something to teach as well as something to learn from schooling.