期刊名称:European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults
电子版ISSN:2000-7426
出版年度:2012
卷号:4
期号:1
页码:65-80
DOI:10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela0088
语种:English
出版社:Linköping University Electronic Press
摘要:This article presents the results of research where the main objective was to achieve a better understanding of the uses made by professionals in the adult education sphere of the official knowledge that provides the framework and guidelines for their work. The study was undertaken using Bernsteins theoretical model of the structure of official pedagogical discourse, and employed an essentially ethnographic fieldwork methodology to analyse the work of a team of adult education specialists working in a local development association in the north of Portugal. The results of the study show that the team was able to make both reproductive and recontextualising use of official knowledge, thereby demonstrating that, even in workplaces where external prescription is extremely influential, it is possible to put official knowledge to alternative i.e. more effective, locally-adapted use.
关键词:Official knowledge; knowledge use; adult education professionals; sociology of education; Portugal