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Powerful Knowledge

Powerful Knowledge is a curricular concept that refers to specialized, systematically developed knowledge distinct from everyday experience, selected and organized within educational contexts for its capacity to reveal new ways of thinking, predict, and transform understanding within and across disciplines.

139

Publications

7.1K

Citations

191

Authors

107

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

78

Parents

Publications

139

On the powers of powerful knowledge

Michael Young, Johan Muller · Review of Education · 2013 · 388 citations

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Expertise, Truth, and Urban Policy Mobilities: Global Circuits of Knowledge in the Development of Vancouver, Canada's ‘four Pillar’ Drug Strategy

Eugene McCann · Environment and Planning A Economy and Space · 2007 · 352 citations

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How competency‐based training locks the working class out of powerful knowledge: a modified Bernsteinian analysis

Leesa Wheelahan · British Journal of Sociology of Education · 2007 · 318 citations

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Computer science in K-12 school curricula of the 2lst century: Why, what and when?

Mary Webb, Niki Davis, Tim Bell et al. · Education and Information Technologies · 2016 · 303 citations · Full text

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Knowledge, power and powerful knowledge re‐visited

Johan Muller, Michael Young · The Curriculum Journal · 2019 · 220 citations · Full text

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Authors

191

  1. TB
    Tine Béneker

    Utrecht University, Netherlands

    7 publications · 196 citations

    7

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  2. GM
    Graham McPhail

    University of Auckland, New Zealand

    6 publications · 222 citations

    6

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  3. JH
    Jim Hordern

    Bath Spa University, United Kingdom

    6 publications · 146 citations

    6

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  4. AM
    Alaric Maude

    Flinders University, Australia

    5 publications · 353 citations

    5

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  5. GB
    Gabriel Bladh

    Karlstad University, Sweden

    4 publications · 144 citations

    4

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Institutions

107

  1. Karlstad University

    Karlstad, Sweden

    9 h-index

    13 publications

    601 citations

  2. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    8 h-index

    14 publications

    379 citations

  3. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    8 h-index

    8 publications

    514 citations

  4. University of Auckland

    Auckland, New Zealand

    8 h-index

    9 publications

    404 citations

  5. University of Helsinki

    Helsinki, Finland

    5 h-index

    7 publications

    189 citations

  6. Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority

    Melbourne, Australia

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    502 citations

  7. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    805 citations

  8. University of Bath

    Bath, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    109 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Curriculum Studies

    JCS · 15 publications · 658 citations

    15

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  2. 14

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  3. The Curriculum Journal

    11 publications · 646 citations

    11

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  4. London Review of Education

    9 publications · 517 citations

    9

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  5. British Educational Research Journal

    BERJ · 3 publications · 107 citations

    3

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