Conceptualizing Powerful Knowledge according to Michael Young’s Knowladge-baced Curriculum Theory

Conceptualizing knowledge creation: a critique of Nonaka’s theory

Nonaka‟s proposition that knowledge is created through the interaction of tacit and explicit knowledge involving four modes of knowledge conversion is flawed. Three of the modes appear plausible but none are supported by evidence that cannot be explained more simply. The conceptual framework omits inherently tacit knowledge, and uses a radically subjective definition of knowledge: knowledge is ...

Conceptualizing knowledge culture

The purpose of this article is to explore a concept of knowledge culture. The discussion addresses theoretical foundations of this concept: concepts of theoretical and practitioner knowledge, knowledge management processes, knowledge technologies and systems, different organizational cultures and their corresponding kinds of knowledge, and brief evidence of exemplary knowledge management. A def...

Conceptualizing curriculum counseling as a new domain in the field of curriculum studies

Scientific disciplines evolve based on the modern needs of societies and curriculum is no exception. One of the recent concepts introduced in the curriculum area is curriculum counseling. Explaining and conceptualizing this concept could facilitate the improvement of the learning level and realizing the objectives of the curriculum. In this study, curriculum counseling was discussed as a new co...

Overcoming the crisis in curriculum theory: a knowledge-based approach

Re-"conceptualizing" Procedural Knowledge in Mathematics

Many mathematics educators have lost sight of the critical importance of the mathematical "understanding" which underlies procedural competence, in part because we do not have a language to refer to this kind of understanding. The modal way of categorizing mathematical knowledge -conceptual and procedural knowledge -is limited in that: (a) it is almost exclusively focused on the mathematics of ...

Knowledge industry: a powerful mechanism.

The paper deals with the pharmaceutical industry's links to the knowledge industry, through powerful marketing strategies. With the aim of scientifically legitimizing its products, the pharmaceutical industry interferes with the production of medical knowledge. In the form of a mechanism for directing economic interests, it funds drug research, biases its results and stimulates the production a...