“The lessons for sociologists of education that I draw from my comparison of the UK and South African cases are (i) that it is important to make explicit the ways in which sociological knowledge can claim a degree of objectivity,… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
“At the same time, it has to be recognized that the conditions for this objectivity are not easily won. They cannot rely on the outmoded claims of positivist social science or a comfortable consensus that can hide real differences. It… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
“Dialectics, Engestrom states, reverses the direction of conventional logic: instead of seeing 'concrete' phenomena as something sensually palpable and 'abstraction' as a conceptual or… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
“In his excellent and extremely comprehensive text, Engestrom (1991) locates Vygotsky's ideas within a dialectic approach, which was undoubtedly the framework that Vygotsky himself… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
“The lessons for sociologists of education that I draw from my comparison of the UK and South African cases are (i) that it is… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
“Engestom argues that in any classroom, workplace or community it is possible to develop what he refers to as 'theoretically grounded concepts' which go… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
“At the same time, it has to be recognized that the conditions for this objectivity are not easily won. They cannot rely on the… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
“Education has a social specificity of its own that centres on the conditions for the acquisition of knowledge that can never be reduced to… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
“Outcomes-based qualifications, if seen as a basis for the curriculum, lead almost inexorably to an extreme version of social constructivism which in effect does… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
