Knowledge in education: Why philosophy matters | UCL Institute of Education

In recent years ideas about education have polarised: on one side are those stressing facts and disciplines; on the other, those committed to the encouragement of learners to make their own meaning. By offering a fine-grained account of pedagogic practice and subject knowledge, recent developments in philosophy provide a means of reconfiguring the issue in a manner that transcends this simple opposition.

Professor Jan Derry draws on the work of the neo-Hegelian philosopher Robert Brandom, termed 'inferentialism', to re-examine questions concerning knowledge that has preoccupied teachers, educational researchers and policy makers. Considerations about the nature of knowledge and understanding involve conceptions of mind, meaning, and activity.

Common conceptions are challenged by adopting a Vygotskian approach to both pedagogic practice and knowledge, one that emphasises the significance of normative constraints for both teachers and learners.

Professor Alice Sullivan talks about social class and gender differences in educational attainment and social mobility.

She addresses the roles of children's home backgrounds and their schooling, and explains the importance of 'cultural capital' and the power of reading for pleasure.

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