Powerful knowledge, myth or reality? Four necessary conditions if knowledge is to be associated with power and social justice

Can knowledge be powerful and, if so, what forms do knowledge and power take? The view of some social realist curriculum theorists that power exists in academic theories although not in everyday understanding is questioned. Power is taken to exist through social positions, and to involve control ov...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Priscilla Alderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UCL Press 2020-02-01
Series:London Review of Education
Online Access:https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=3a2dd799-e59e-44ac-938d-c7068f7c566c