Book chapter
Vocational education and training in schools and ‘really useful knowledge'
The SAGE Handbook of Critical Pedagogies, pp.797-810
SAGE Publications Ltd
2020
Abstract
In chronicling the origins of radical education in the United Kingdom between 1790 and 1848, Richard Johnson (1979) invoked the idea of ‘really useful knowledge’ as a way of distancing educative or transformative ideologies from the processes of capitalist schooling and related forms of ‘subjection', ‘servility', ‘slavery’ and ‘surveillance’ (or ‘useless knowledge') (1979: 78). He identified four key aspects of radical education that are pertinent to this chapter. First, it involved a critique of all forms of ‘provided’ education including both state and religious. In other words, radical education was strongly oppositional and revolved around ‘a contestation of orthodoxies’ ...
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- Title
- Vocational education and training in schools and ‘really useful knowledge'
- Authors/Creators
- B. Down (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- S.R. Steinberg (Editor)B. Down (Editor)
- Publication Details
- The SAGE Handbook of Critical Pedagogies, pp.797-810
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Identifiers
- 991005540103507891
- Copyright
- © 2020 by SAGE Publications
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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