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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... ideologies and the social privileges that accompany them. I also criticized some of the dominant forms of supposedly ... ideological conditions. Critical pedagogy cannot and will not occur in a vacuum. Unless we honestly face these ...
... ideologies and the social privileges that accompany them. I also criticized some of the dominant forms of supposedly ... ideological conditions. Critical pedagogy cannot and will not occur in a vacuum. Unless we honestly face these ...
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... Ideology and Curriculum (Apple, 1990) has been widened and deepened, not only both in its scope and sophistication but ... ideological visions embodied in neoliberal and neoconservative policies, the book extends and widens the scope of ...
... Ideology and Curriculum (Apple, 1990) has been widened and deepened, not only both in its scope and sophistication but ... ideological visions embodied in neoliberal and neoconservative policies, the book extends and widens the scope of ...
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... ideologies or truth claims." Instead, we need to think of them as discourses that help produce things like markets, the "rational" and economizing individual, and the world as made up of competitive relations. Yet such discourses do ...
... ideologies or truth claims." Instead, we need to think of them as discourses that help produce things like markets, the "rational" and economizing individual, and the world as made up of competitive relations. Yet such discourses do ...
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... ideologies that circulate most powerfully in a society. Let us be honest here. In many nations currently, the ... ideological "conversions" to come under the leadership of conservative causes (see Apple, 1996, 2001a). Neoliberals ...
... ideologies that circulate most powerfully in a society. Let us be honest here. In many nations currently, the ... ideological "conversions" to come under the leadership of conservative causes (see Apple, 1996, 2001a). Neoliberals ...
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... ideological goals. The objective possibilities will always be there. How these possibilities will be organized and mobilized, for progressive or retrogressive purposes, is dependent on the balance of forces in each site. If this sounds ...
... ideological goals. The objective possibilities will always be there. How these possibilities will be organized and mobilized, for progressive or retrogressive purposes, is dependent on the balance of forces in each site. If this sounds ...
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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