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Fresh Contacts, Education, and the Cultural Heritage

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Education is properly understood as a generational responsibility, in which the accumulated cultural heritage is passed on to students who, because they have grown up in different times, will take and shape this knowledge in their own way. This chapter develops Mannheim’s understanding of the importance of ‘fresh contacts’ to discuss the crisis of the curriculum over the twentieth century, where ambivalence about the cultural heritage has allowed instrumental imperatives to dominate the purpose of education.

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    Jennie Bristow

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Bristow, J. (2016). Fresh Contacts, Education, and the Cultural Heritage. In: The Sociology of Generations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60136-0_2

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