Emerging Perspectives from Social Realism on Knowledge and Education: Curricula, Pedagogy, Identity, and Equity [Hardcover]

PART 1:?Theoretical Matters?1. Introduction: Knowledge and the curriculum: new perspectives from social realism? 2. Bernsteins knowledge structures and the curriculum? 3. The curriculum as relation between knowledge of reality and the individuals development: contributions from Antonio Gramsci and Lev Vygotsky??PART 2:?Curriculum Contestations?4. School music education beyond human development? Contributions from a social realist perspective 5. Decolonisation and the curriculum: Applying a social realist lens 6. Knowledge travels: the recontextualisation of socio-cultural knowledge for the academy and the school. 7. Privatising Music Knowledge: Identifying the restrictions that specialise music education??PART 3:?Knowledge and Teacher Education?8. Logic in the Curriculum Design Coherence Model: How the Model creates coherence 9. Practice knowledge and teacher mentoring: a realist analysis of professional development and learning 10. Why liberating Education Studies from foundation disciplines cannot make it more coherent 11. Exploring the challenges of recontextualisation in the development of teachers professional practice knowledge.??PART 4:?Crossing Boundaries?12. Interdisciplinary curriculum and equity 13. Crossing boundaries: Exploring the theory, practice and possibility of a Future 3 curriculum

This book brings the key ideas and concepts of social realism to bear on current debates in the fields of knowledge and curriculum.

The key concern of this collection is to highlight matters related to knowledge and the influence these dimensions have on the formation of curricula, pedagogy, identity, and equity in educational contexts. Presenting new perspectives on the place of various types and forms of knowledge in contemporary education, this book explores two cenl3¼