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Young, Michael; Muller, Johan – Theory and Research in Education, 2007
The aim of this article is to reflect on and explore questions of truth and objectivity in the sociology of educational knowledge. It begins by reviewing the problems raised by the social constructivist approaches to knowledge associated with the "new sociology of education" of the I970s. It suggests that they have significant parallels…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Sociology, Natural Sciences, Ethics