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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... forms and ideologies and the social privileges that accompany them. I also criticized some of the dominant forms of supposedly counterhegemonic literature that urge us to move in more "emancipatory" directions. Thus, for example, I ...
... forms and ideologies and the social privileges that accompany them. I also criticized some of the dominant forms of supposedly counterhegemonic literature that urge us to move in more "emancipatory" directions. Thus, for example, I ...
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... form collective and progressive political action? What is the place of politics in this? ls it possible to alter these politics? To cope with these and similar questions, we need critical theoretical, empirical, and historical tools ...
... form collective and progressive political action? What is the place of politics in this? ls it possible to alter these politics? To cope with these and similar questions, we need critical theoretical, empirical, and historical tools ...
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... form (Apple, 2000). Understanding these things has also involved tensions between different models of interpretation, including neo-Marxist, world- system, and poststructural/postmodern perspectives. It is in the sociology of curriculum ...
... form (Apple, 2000). Understanding these things has also involved tensions between different models of interpretation, including neo-Marxist, world- system, and poststructural/postmodern perspectives. It is in the sociology of curriculum ...
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... form of reproduction of dominant relations and an arena for counterhegemonic possibilities. The key is to recognize the possibilities of both without romanticizing the latter, since this is decidedly not a level playing field ...
... form of reproduction of dominant relations and an arena for counterhegemonic possibilities. The key is to recognize the possibilities of both without romanticizing the latter, since this is decidedly not a level playing field ...
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... forms and shows the ways in which they participate in a cultural politics of imperialism. She illuminates how the all-too-often taken-for-granted nature of such popular representations has major implications for the struggles over ...
... forms and shows the ways in which they participate in a cultural politics of imperialism. She illuminates how the all-too-often taken-for-granted nature of such popular representations has major implications for the struggles over ...
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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