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The Role of Policy in Philosophy of Education: An Argument and an Illustration
Author(s) -
White John
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2012.00875.x
Subject(s) - argument (complex analysis) , section (typography) , philosophy of education , curriculum , subject (documents) , epistemology , sociology , education policy , positive economics , social science , pedagogy , political science , law , philosophy , higher education , economics , computer science , library science , medicine , operating system
The article consists of a general section looking at changes since the 1960s in the links between philosophy of education and policy‐making, followed by a specific section engaging in topical policy critique. The historical argument claims that policy involvement was far more widespread in our subject before the mid‐1980s than it has been since then, and discusses various reasons for this change. The second section is a close examination of the Expert Panel's D ecember 2011 recommendations on the future of the E nglish National Curriculum. Embedded in this is a critique of M ichael Y oung's influential notion of ‘powerful knowledge’.