Naslov
Who Owns Knowledge Transformation? - the Case of Croatian Secondary School Political Knowledge

Autori
Domazet, Mladen ; Doolan, Karin

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
European Conference on Educational Research: Transforming Knowledge

Mjesto i datum
Ženeva, Švicarska, 13.09.2006. - 16.09.2006

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
knowledge transformation. citizenship education; values; textbooks

Sažetak
The paper summarises the notion that any body of knowledge that is to be transmitted through education must consist not only of propositional knowledge, but also of procedural knowledge and values. Having said that, educational transmission and expected appropriation steers the narrow course between accepting firm objectivity of some body of knowledge and fallibilism inherent in other. 'Political knowledge' is a case in point, as it consists not only of certain immutable truths, but also of highly volatile subject-dependent 'standpoints, ' as well as the capacity to change every one of those truths in altered settings. Moreover, all conceptual components of such knowledge are radically affected by 'paradigm shifts' in social and political circumstances. Content analysis of student textbooks for political education in Croatia shows how political knowledge is being transformed both theoretically and practically as the country itself undergoes changes to its structures. However, student interviews and questionnaires show that these conceptual and extensional transformations of political knowledge do not necessarily hold ground in classroom settings, but that in education the completion of knowledge transformation ultimately depends on the individual teacher. Therefore, it is suggested that attempts of introducing similar knowledge transformation should take a bottom up, rather than top down approach.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija, Pedagogija, Filozofija

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