Is there still no pedagogy in England?

'...in a Japanese classroom, there are students and there is knowledge, and the teacher serves as the mediator between them. In a German classroom, there is also knowledge and students, but teachers perceive this knowledge as their property and dispense it to students as they think best.

In an American classroom, there are teachers and there are students, but the status of knowledge is uncertain.

' (Stiegler and Hiebert, in Kozulin et al eds, 2003, Vygotsky's educational theory in cultural context.)

What is the situation in the UK or wherever you are? What is the role/position of the teacher, pupils and knowledge?