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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... individuals were James Beane, Roger Dale, David Gillborn, Diana Hess, Cameron McCarthy, Fazal Rizvi, Susan Robertson, Antonio Novoa, Joao Paraskeva, Tomas Tadeu da Silva, Michael Singh, Steven Selden, Amy Stambach, Steven Stoer, Carlos ...
... individuals were James Beane, Roger Dale, David Gillborn, Diana Hess, Cameron McCarthy, Fazal Rizvi, Susan Robertson, Antonio Novoa, Joao Paraskeva, Tomas Tadeu da Silva, Michael Singh, Steven Selden, Amy Stambach, Steven Stoer, Carlos ...
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... individual, and the world as made up of competitive relations. Yet such discourses do something else as well; they make such "things" as objects of government practices and they do so through government practices (Slater & Tonkiss, 2001) ...
... individual, and the world as made up of competitive relations. Yet such discourses do something else as well; they make such "things" as objects of government practices and they do so through government practices (Slater & Tonkiss, 2001) ...
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... individual consumers. Think of institutions of the local state such as school systems. In most parts of the United States, elected school boards at a districtwide level are the ways in which citizens participate. The subject position on ...
... individual consumers. Think of institutions of the local state such as school systems. In most parts of the United States, elected school boards at a districtwide level are the ways in which citizens participate. The subject position on ...
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... individual and, at the very same time, can actually work against that individual because of the society's lack of binding value commitments that might promote the ethical integrity of both the person and the social order. Modern and ...
... individual and, at the very same time, can actually work against that individual because of the society's lack of binding value commitments that might promote the ethical integrity of both the person and the social order. Modern and ...
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... individual of the market, the very embodiment of thin — not thick — democracy? How can we produce new identities? What discourses can help us see ourselves as social actors who participate in national and international movements that ...
... individual of the market, the very embodiment of thin — not thick — democracy? How can we produce new identities? What discourses can help us see ourselves as social actors who participate in national and international movements that ...
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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