Knowledge and the Future of the Curriculum

1. Introduction: Knowledge and the Future of the Curriculum; Elizabeth Rata and Brian Barrett 2. Social Realism and the Problem of the Problem of Knowledge in the Sociology of Education; Rob Moore 3. On the Powers of Powerful Knowledge; Michael Young and Johan Muller 4. Powerful Knowledge, Esoteric Knowledge, Curriculum Knowledge; John Beck 5. Knowledge and Democracy: The Strife of the Dialectic; Elizabeth Rata 6. Risky Business: The Marginalisation of Knowledge in American Education Reform since A Nation at Risk; Brian Barrett 7. The Missing 'Voice' of Knowledge in Knowledge and Skills; Chris Corbel 8. Pathways to Powerful Knowledge: A Case for Music's 'Voice'; Graham McPhail 9. 'Neither Existence nor Future': The Social Realist Challenge to School Geography; John Morgan 10. Powerful Knowledge in History: Disciplinary Strength or Weakened Episteme?; Barbara Ormond 11. Sequencing Rules as a Condition of Knowledge Structure; Jeanne Gamble 12. Building Knowledge: The Significance of Semantic Waves; Karl Maton 13. Practical Knowledge of Teaching: What Counts?; Yael Shalem and Lynn Slonimsky