TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lawton, Denis.
TI  - Class, Culture and the Curriculum
SN  - 9710080549 
U1  - 375.00941 LAW  
PY  - 1976///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  -  Curriculum planning
KW  - Educational sociology
N1  - Includes bibliography
N2  - It is often argued that education is concerned with the transmission of middle-class values and that this explains the relative educational failure of the working class. Consequently, distinctive culture needs a different kind of education. This volume examines this claim and the wider question of culture in British society. It analyses cultural differences from a social historical viewpoint and considers the views of those applying the sociology of knowledge to educational problems. The author recognizes the pervasive sub-cultural differences in British society but maintains that education.  Read less

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