The Social Construction of School Knowledge

• In Event: Fifty Years of International Curriculum Studies

Abstract

My contribution would examine what might be called, after Michel Callon, the ‘pacification’ of the curriculum: its transformation into stable, inalienable forms that can be claimed as possessions by students. I look back to discussions in JCS on the social construction of knowledge (including my own works on making systems and curricular conversions of cultural capital), but focus in particular on the future and the fate of curriculum in virtual schooling regimes and the educational imaginaries of ‘learning technologists`.

Author

• Jan K. Nespor, The Ohio State University