Abstract:As Kupfer says in her introduction, this book is about power over education and power in education, and how these affect today's societies. Kupfer recalls Young's Knowledge and Control (1971), where knowledge is evaluated in terms of its power to 'enable people to participate in society' (p. 2). This is a key theme of the book: that social transformation is enabled as 'workers and intellectuals become conscious and develop counter discourses' (p. 5). It is a theme that reminds us of Freire, whose ideas permeat… Show more
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