Michael Young - Routledge author of the month
05 February 2010
Michael Young - Professor of Education in the Faculty of Culture and Pedagogy at the Institute of Education has been named Routledge author of the month
Michael Young studied science at Cambridge University before becoming a school teacher. While teaching he studied sociology at Regents Street Polytechnic and went on to do an MA at the University of Essex prior to being appointed as lecturer in sociology of education at the Institute of Education, University of London in 1967 where he has been based ever since. In 1986 he was invited to establish the Post 16 Education Centre at the Institute of Education. This led to the Institute developing a leading role in teaching and research in further, vocational and adult education, and to a range of UK and European funded research projects. He became Professor of Education in 1998 and after several years as a part time Professor at the Institute of Education and at the University of Bath he is now Emeritus Professor. He has also held Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Pretoria, Witwatersrand and the Capital Normal University Beijing. In 1989 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Social Sciences by the University of Joensuu in Finland and in 2004 was appointed as a Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute (FCGLI).
His involvement with Routledge began when he edited Society, State and Schooling with Geoff Whitty for Falmer Press in 1977. This was followed by The Curriculum of the Future (1998) and his most recent book Bringing Knowledge Back In (2007) which won Second Prize for outstanding books on education published in 2007/8 and has recently been translated into Portuguese. He is currently co-editing Educating for the Knowledge Economy with Hugh Lauder and colleagues at the University of Bath. In 2007 he was invited to write the lead article for the AERA's annual Review of Educational Research for 2009 and contributed a chapter in Leaders in Curriculum Studies. In 2009 he was a keynote speaker at the Annual Conference the European Council for Educational Research in Vienna and at the 75th Anniversary Conference of the New Zealand Council for Educational Research in Wellington. In July 2010 he is co-organising a symposium at the World Congress of Sociology.
Michael Young is Assistant Editor of the Journal of Education and Work, and Consulting Editor for the British Journal of Sociology of Education and Critical Studies in Education. In 2004 wrote a report for the ILO on National Qualifications Frameworks (NQFs) and in 2009 he led a 16-country study on implementing NQFs, also for the ILO. Michael Young's research and writing has been largely concerned with the issue of knowledge in education and the related issues of curriculum and qualifications. Since 1990, he has developed a close links with colleagues in Brazil, Australia and South Africa and has advised a range of Government Bodies. He is currently leading an Anglo-South African project on Alternative Educational Futures funded by the British Academy.
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