Ball, SJ;
(2020)
The errors of redemptive sociology or giving up on hope and despair.
British Journal of Sociology of Education
, 41
(6)
pp. 870-880.
10.1080/01425692.2020.1755230.
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Abstract
This paper considers the sociology of education (SOE) as a modern human science. It suggests that the SOE is mired in a set of unreflexive, redemptive, Enlightment rationalities, and explores the messy relationships of the sociology with education that result from this. It is argues that the sociology of education has consistently failed to distance itself from the metaphysics, optimism and oppressions of modern schooling. That it has failed to call into question either the basic building blocks of schooling, or what we call education–pedagogy, curriculum and assessment–or the buildings themselves, the spaces of education. The paper concludes by asserting to need for critique rather than simply criticism as a starting point for thinking education differently.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The errors of redemptive sociology or giving up on hope and despair |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/01425692.2020.1755230 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2020.1755230 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Sociology, redemption, hope, eugenics, population |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10110424 |
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