This is a response to two discussions of my article ‘The Weakness of “Powerful Knowledge”’ featuring in 2018 in the London Review of Education 16 (2), the first by Johan Muller and Michael Young and the second by Jim Hordern. It also makes brief comments on pieces on powerful knowledge in the London Review of Education Special Issue 16 (3). The question I focus on here, as in 2018, is ‘What is powerful knowledge?’ I raise doubts about Muller and Young’s new answer to this question as well as about Hordern’s defence of Young’s position more generally. I suggest in conclusion that it would be helpful to abandon the term ‘powerful knowledge’ and use language more suitable to impartial scholarly investigations.

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强大知识的终结？

这是对 2018 年伦敦教育评论 16 (2) 中我的文章“强大知识的弱点”的两次讨论的回应，第一次由 Johan Muller 和 Michael Young 发表，第二次由吉姆·霍德恩 (Jim Hordern) 发表。它还对伦敦教育评论特刊 16 (3) 中有关强大知识的文章进行了简要评论。与 2018 年一样，我在这里关注的问题是“什么是强大的知识？” 我对穆勒和杨对这个问题的新回答以及霍德恩对杨的立场的更普遍的辩护表示怀疑。最后，我建议放弃“强大的知识”一词并使用更适合公正的学术研究的语言会有所帮助。