Empowering young people: Powerful knowledge in economics
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DOI: 10.1002/berj.4216
Abstract: Powerful knowledge in school economics is conceptualised as the blending of economics knowledge arising from grasping threshold concepts with expressions of disciplinary thinking in terms of the powers or capabilities that this knowledge can provide… read more here.
Keywords: economics; school economics; knowledge; powerful knowledge ... See more keywords
What is ‘powerful knowledge’ in school biology?
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DOI: 10.1080/00219266.2023.2190269
Abstract: Powerful knowledge refers to specialised knowledge that provides generalisations, claims to be universal and provides a basis for making judgements. It originates from an academic discipline or disciplines, which is transformed into a school curriculum… read more here.
Keywords: powerful knowledge; muller young; young 2019; school ... See more keywords
Envisaging the alternatives: from knowledge of the powerful to powerful knowledge in history classrooms
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DOI: 10.1080/00220272.2019.1703273
Abstract: ABSTRACT In this case study, we explore pedagogical practices that could promote powerful knowledge in school history. We analyse teaching sessions conducted by two teachers. The cases were selected from an observation study that focused… read more here.
Keywords: alternatives knowledge; knowledge; envisaging alternatives; powerful knowledge ... See more keywords
Powerful knowns and powerful knowings
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DOI: 10.1080/00220272.2020.1717634
Abstract: ABSTRACT The idea of powerful knowledge as a curriculum principle has led to extensive discussion. It has been framed as a way of bringing knowledge back into curriculum thinking in the light if its absence… read more here.
Keywords: curriculum; knowledge; powerful knowns; powerful knowledge ... See more keywords
On powerful knowledge as a policy concept and sociological theory
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DOI: 10.1080/00220272.2024.2436354
Abstract: ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to analyze Michael Young’s and Johan Muller’s revisit of the origins of the concept of powerful knowledge. The background and theoretical framing of the analysis consist in an… read more here.
Keywords: education; knowledge; powerful knowledge; analysis ... See more keywords
Teaching through ‘powerful knowledge’ in vocational higher education: tensions of ‘relational’ approaches in China
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DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2025.2507256
Abstract: ABSTRACT This study addresses the problem of knowledge practices in Chinese vocational higher education institutions (HEIs) by using Bernstein's notion of a ‘pedagogic device’. China's distinctive context is characterised by a hybrid mix of discipline-based… read more here.
Keywords: vocational higher; education; powerful knowledge; higher education ... See more keywords
‘Canon in colour’: Contextual Knowledge of Race and Empire as Powerful Knowledge
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DOI: 10.1080/1358684x.2024.2443597
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper uses the concept of powerful knowledge to consider the teaching of canonical literature in the secondary English classroom. Drawing on Muller and Young’s definition of powerful knowledge which draws on potentia rather… read more here.
Keywords: canon colour; race empire; knowledge; powerful knowledge ... See more keywords
Specialized, systematic and powerful knowledge
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DOI: 10.14324/lre.19.1.06
Abstract: This article starts with a comment on John White’s article published in 2019 in the London Review of Education , 17 (3), entitled ‘The end of powerful knowledge?’, and particularly on the point made about… read more here.
Keywords: specialized systematic; specialized knowledge; powerful knowledge; systematic powerful ... See more keywords
The weakness of 'powerful knowledge'
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DOI: 10.18546/lre.16.2.11
Abstract: This article offers a philosophical critique of Michael Young's notion of 'powerful knowledge', as found largely in his own but also in others' writings since 2009. The first part of the article focuses on the… read more here.
Keywords: article; knowledge; weakness powerful; powerful knowledge ... See more keywords
Powerful knowledge and the textbook
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DOI: 10.18546/lre.16.3.05
Abstract: This article draws on experience both within commercial textbook publishing and on textbook-development projects at the UCL Institute of Education to interrogate the current dynamics of 'neoliberal' edu-business (after Ball, 2012). The author discusses some… read more here.
Keywords: knowledge; textbook; knowledge textbook; powerful knowledge ... See more keywords
Exercise and intervention: On the sociology of powerful knowledge
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DOI: 10.18546/lre.17.1.03
Abstract: This article discusses John White's recent critique of the notion of 'powerful knowledge'. It is argued that White raises some salient points but overlooks the genesis of powerful knowledge as an idea and its debt… read more here.
Keywords: exercise intervention; powerful knowledge; sociology;