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Culture, Knowledge and Power: What the Conservatives have Learnt from E.D. Hirsch
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British Conservatives happily acknowledge the debt that they owe to E.D. Hirsch. To understand the nature of their curricular project, and how it is located within the wider goals of education and social policy, we need to attend carefully to the character of this transatlantic borrowing. Its emphases and omissions reveal much about the exclusionary reimagining of national identity that informs the continuing counter-revolution in education.
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- Authors
- Yandell, J.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Yandell, John
- ORCID
- Yandell, John
- Venue
- Changing English
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2017-07-03
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 246-252
- ISSN
- 1358-684X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-3585
- OpenAlex
- W2773137079
- Cited by
- 27
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 5.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Changing English (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Education, Politics, and Culture Studies
- Social Sciences › Education › Education and Cultural Studies
- Keywords
- E. D. Hirsch, British Conservative Party, curriculum policy, cultural literacy, national identity, social policy, education and power
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