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Xuelong Hu – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2024
This paper examines how the Durkheimian approach to the 'ideal' delineates a possible way of straddling the dilemma between the normative orientation of 'powerful knowledge' accounts and the critical orientation of 'knowledge of the powerful' accounts. It argues that the normative aims are embedded in the fabrics of the sociological description…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Educational Change, Foundations of Education, Social Change