The State and the Politics of KnowledgeThe State and the Politics of Knowledge extends the insightful arguments Michael Apple provided in Educating the "Right" Way in new and truly international directions. Arguing that schooling is, by definition, political, Apple and his co-authors move beyond a critical analysis to describe numerous ways of interrupting dominance and creating truly democratic and realistic alternatives to the ways markets, standards, testing, and a limited vision of religion are now being pressed into schools. |
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... curricula and methods of instruction should be used in our schools. Think for instance of the whole language- versus- phonics debate and the immense political controversies this has demonstrated in local communities and in state ...
... curricula and methods of instruction should be used in our schools. Think for instance of the whole language- versus- phonics debate and the immense political controversies this has demonstrated in local communities and in state ...
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... curricular forms and ideologies and the social privileges that accompany them. I also criticized some of the dominant forms ... curricula and teaching, the ability of dominant groups to exert leadership in the struggle over this and the ...
... curricular forms and ideologies and the social privileges that accompany them. I also criticized some of the dominant forms ... curricula and teaching, the ability of dominant groups to exert leadership in the struggle over this and the ...
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... curricula can have very negative effects (McNeil, 2000). However, it is also possible — and l have witnessed this personally more than once — for teachers to use the text in ways undreamed-of by either the publishers or the state ...
... curricula can have very negative effects (McNeil, 2000). However, it is also possible — and l have witnessed this personally more than once — for teachers to use the text in ways undreamed-of by either the publishers or the state ...
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... curricula, teaching, assessment, and language, the book's authors aim to demonstrate the power of social movements and organized groups of committed actors in building counterhegemonic tendencies. But we also aim to do this in such a ...
... curricula, teaching, assessment, and language, the book's authors aim to demonstrate the power of social movements and organized groups of committed actors in building counterhegemonic tendencies. But we also aim to do this in such a ...
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Contents
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Becoming Right Education and the Formation of Conservative Movements | 25 |
Reading Polynesian Barbie Iterations of Race Nation and State | 51 |
Rethinking the EducationState Formation Connection The State Cultural Struggles and Changing the School | 81 |
What Happened to SocialDemocratic Progressivism in Scandinavia? Restructuring Education in Sweden and Norway in the 1990s | 109 |
Schooling Work and Subjectivity | 149 |
Democracy Technology and Curriculum Lessons from the Critical Practices of Korean Teachers | 177 |
Educating the State Democratizing Knowledge The Citizen School Project in Porto Alegre Brazil | 193 |
Afterword | 221 |
Notes | 227 |
References | 235 |
Contributors | 251 |
Index | 253 |
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