Critiquing the positioning of children from non-dominant groups as linguistically deficient,
this book aims to bridge the gap between theorizing of language in critical sociolinguistics …

In recent times, there has been a strong focus on moving university teaching away from a so-
called 'instructivist', lecture-centred mode, in which the focus is on what teachers are doing …

General capabilities, largely derived from international developments of twentieth-century
skills, form one of the three basic dimensions of the Australian Curriculum, but the …

This article briefly examines Michael Young's concept of powerful knowledge and discusses
two ways of interpreting its meaning. One focuses on the characteristics that make …

It has become increasingly evident that the discourse of transformation that has shaped the
democratising of higher education institutions over the first two decades of the democratic …

This paper offers a critique of 'powerful knowledge'–a concept in Education Studies that has
been presented as a just basis for school curricula. Powerful knowledge is disciplinary …

ABSTRACT The 'Learning Compass 2030'was released by the OECD in 2019 as their new
policy framework for the compulsory schooling sector. This framework takes the bold step of …

Drawing on a Levinasian ethical perspective, the argument driving this paper is that the
technical accountability movement currently dominating the educational system in England …

This article considers the place of knowledge in developing a socially just curriculum. It
pursues the unusual route of a critique of Social Realism, a small but influential tendency in …

This article takes up questions about knowledge and the school curriculum with respect to
literary studies within subject English. Its intention is to focus on literary studies in English …