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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Page vii
... important in the formation and production of this volume. l need as well to say something about the Friday Seminar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. For over thirty years, the Friday afternoon meetings with my graduate students ...
... important in the formation and production of this volume. l need as well to say something about the Friday Seminar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. For over thirty years, the Friday afternoon meetings with my graduate students ...
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... important issues. How do we understand the role ot education in responding to and helping to form collective and progressive political action? What is the place of politics in this? ls it possible to alter these politics? To cope with ...
... important issues. How do we understand the role ot education in responding to and helping to form collective and progressive political action? What is the place of politics in this? ls it possible to alter these politics? To cope with ...
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... important, we need comparative studies that both continue but also re- focus our attention away from, say, England or Sweden, where a good deal of research on the state and education has been done. By decentering the West and the North ...
... important, we need comparative studies that both continue but also re- focus our attention away from, say, England or Sweden, where a good deal of research on the state and education has been done. By decentering the West and the North ...
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... state itself. Even more important to the arena with which The State and the Politics of Knowledge deals, it is also true in terms of the constantly shifting role the state plays 6 THE STATE AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE.
... state itself. Even more important to the arena with which The State and the Politics of Knowledge deals, it is also true in terms of the constantly shifting role the state plays 6 THE STATE AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE.
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... important to understand that official knowledge is the result of conflicts and compromises both within the state and between the state and civil society. This involves complex issues of political economy, of cultural politics, of the ...
... important to understand that official knowledge is the result of conflicts and compromises both within the state and between the state and civil society. This involves complex issues of political economy, of cultural politics, of the ...
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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