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Direct linkWheelahan, Leesa – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2007
This paper argues that competency-based training in vocational education and training in Australia is one mechanism through which the working class is denied access to powerful knowledge represented by the academic disciplines. The paper presents a modified Bernsteinian analysis to argue that vocational education and training students need access…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Working Class, Vocational Education, Epistemology
Peer reviewedGoetz, William W. – Social Studies, 1998
Provides a overview of the development and implementation of free public education. Considers the political climate of 18th-century America and the subsequent controversies concerning tax-supported public education. Discusses such issues as moral education, religious education, civic education, and secular and religious opposition and provides…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Democratic Values, Educational Development, Educational History
