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There’s a post over a EdVentures in Technology that links to some articles relevant to a graduate course being taught this year. Quite a few of them may be relevant for my thesis (if only for context…)

The course wiki that puts all this together is at: http://edventures.pbwiki.com/�

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Today I’m reading Schools and the Changing World: struggling toward the future by Levin and Riffel. The following are references from the book to follow up and the information in brackets is holdings at the library of the University of Durham:

• Beare, H. & Boyd, W.L. (eds.) (1993) Restructuring Schools (Education, 371.207 RES)
• Elmore, R. (1992) ‘Why restructuring alone won’t improve teaching’, Educational Leadership, 49, 7, pp.44-8
• Eraut, M. (1991) Education and the Information Society (Education , 370.285 EDU)
• Hargreaves, A. (1994) Changing Teachers, Changing Times (Education, 371.1 HAR)
• Nickerson, R. & Zodhiates, P. (eds.) (1988) Technology in Education: Looking Towards 2020 (not available @ Durham)
• Rudduck, J., Chaplain, R. & Wallace, G. (eds.) (1996) School Improvement: What Can Pupils Tell Us? (Education, 371.207 SCH)

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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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