“Education has a social specificity of its own that centres on the conditions for the acquisition of knowledge that can never be reduced to politics, economics or problems of administration (Bernstein 2000).” — 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 was exploring but never had time to develop in detail. There is no doubt that Engestrom offers a very distinctive perspective on Vygotsky's approach to concept formation. At the same time, by making clear what is… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share
“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, (ii) that there are important conditions which make the creation of such knowledge possible, and (iii) that attempts to undermine… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share
“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
