Month: January 2007

References from ‘Reclaiming Knowledge’

Posted on January 13, 2007 by Doug Belshaw

References/Links

I’ve been reading an excellent book today, Reclaiming Knowledge by Johann Muller (London, 2000). The following is a list of references I could follow up (information in brackets = availabilty at University of Durham library)

Archer, M., (1979) The Social Origin of Educational Systems (not avaialable @ Durham)
Ball, S.J. (1994) Education Reform: a critical and post-structural approach (Education, 379.41 BAL)
Berger, P. & Luckmann, T. (1971) The Social Construction of Reality: a treatise in the sociology of knowledge (Education, 301.31 BER)
Bernstein, B. (1990) The Structuring of Pedagogic Discourse (Education, 306.44 BER)
Castells, M. (1993) End of Mlllennium (Main, L4, 909.82 CAS)
Dale, M. (ed.) (1976) Schooling and Capitalism: a sociological reader (Main, L4, +370.193 OPE)
Gibbons, M., et al. (1994) The New Production of Knowledge (not available @ Durham)
Law, J. (ed.) (1986) Power, Action and Belief: a new sociology of knowledge? (Main, L4, 053 SOC(32)
Rorty, R. (1989) Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (Main, L1, 100 ROR)
Stehr, N. (1994) Knowledge Societies (Main, L4, 301.152 STE)
Taylor, N. (ed.) (1993) Inventing Knowledge: contests in curriculum construction (not available @ Durham)
Usher, R. & Edwards, R. (1994) Postmodernism and Education (Education, 370.1 USH)
Worsley, P. (1997) Knowledges: what different peoples make of the world (Main, L3, 306.42 WOR)
Young, M.D.F. (1998) The Curriculum of the Future: from the ‘new sociology of education’ to a critical theory of learning (Education, 375.001 YOU)
Young, M. (1999) Knowledge, Learning and the Curriculum of the Future? (British Educational Research Journal, 25:4)

I also found:

OECD (1994) The Curriculum Redefined: schooling for the 21st century (Education, 375.006 CUR)

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Systematicity

Posted on January 12, 2007 by Doug Belshaw

Weak Lensing @ Flickr

I came across a word that I didn’t know today in Johann Muller’s Reclaiming Knowledge – Systematicity. It’s not in the dictionary, so I turned to Google’s define: function and…

Systematicity: this term refers to the quality of entailment carryover defined in the previous item: the logic of the source domain carries over to the target. It refers to the application of a system of logical relationships (part-whole, cause-effect, sequence of events, good-bad, etc.) from the source domain in the target domain. If TIME IS A LIMITED RESOURCE, then, since limited resources can run out, time can “run out”. If a limited resource can be saved, then time can “be saved”. If a state is conceived of as a location, then moving into or out of the location will be interpreted as experiencing the state or ceasing to experience the state (“falling in and out of love”, for example).

This comes from a page entitled Terms and concepts for metaphorical and metonymic analysis on the website of the English Dept. at California Polytechnic State University.

References to follow up from today’s reading

Posted on January 6, 2007 by Doug Belshaw

Here’s a list of references from the reading I’ve done today that may bear fruit if tracked down:

Breivik, P.S. (1998) Student Learning in the Information Age (not available @ Durham)
Bruce, C. (1997) The Seven Faces of Information Literacy (not available @ Durham)
Byiers, B. (no date) Digital Literacy: challenges for education (Word doc – Google HTML here)
DfEE (1997) Connecting the Learning Society. National Grid for Learning: the government’s consultation paper (Ed. +371.334 CON)
Langlois, C. (1997) Universities and New Information Technologies: issues and strategies (supposed to be online but I can’t find it)
Roszak, T. (1994) The Cult of Information: a neo-Luddite treatise on high tech, artificial intelligence, and the true art of thinking (Ed. 004 ROS)
Webster, F. (1995) Theories of the Information Society (Main, L4, 303.4833 WEB)