Yandell, John;
(2011)
Book Review: Young People, Popular Culture and Education, by Chris Richards, London and New York, Continuum, 2011, 200 pp., £22.99 (paperback), £70.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-84706-544-5.
[Review].
Changing English
, 18
(2)
pp. 241-243.
10.1080/1358684X.2011.575256.
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Abstract
The present government has developed an analysis of what is wrong with education in the UK and what needs to be done about it. The problem is the lack of academic rigour, the restoration of which, Michael Gove insists, will be achieved by reforming the curriculum so that its focus is on canonical texts, the inculcation of standards of correctness in grammar and punctuation, and the re-telling of ‘our island story’ (Gove Citation2010). Salient in this discourse is the distinction between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ subjects, with the implication that a return to rigour would achieve two desirable (and, so the argument goes, linked) outcomes: economic prosperity and social mobility.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Book Review: Young People, Popular Culture and Education, by Chris Richards, London and New York, Continuum, 2011, 200 pp., £22.99 (paperback), £70.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-84706-544-5 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1358684X.2011.575256 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1358684X.2011.575256 |
| 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. |
| UCL classification: | UCL 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 - Culture, Communication and Media |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178493 |
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