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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... involved in asking and answering these questions. Yet even these issues are insufficient. Official knowledge is taught within specific kinds of institutions, with their own histories, tensions, political economies, hierarchies, and ...
... involved in asking and answering these questions. Yet even these issues are insufficient. Official knowledge is taught within specific kinds of institutions, with their own histories, tensions, political economies, hierarchies, and ...
Page 8
... involved tensions between different models of interpretation, including neo-Marxist, world- system, and poststructural/postmodern perspectives. It is in the sociology of curriculum particularly that the relationship between culture and ...
... involved tensions between different models of interpretation, including neo-Marxist, world- system, and poststructural/postmodern perspectives. It is in the sociology of curriculum particularly that the relationship between culture and ...
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... involved in the role of the state in policing knowledge for use in schools place the state at the center of conflicts over what schools should do, over the larger role the state should play in society, and over the formation of social ...
... involved in the role of the state in policing knowledge for use in schools place the state at the center of conflicts over what schools should do, over the larger role the state should play in society, and over the formation of social ...
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... involved in convincing large numbers of people who might otherwise not be susceptible to ideological "conversions" to come under the leadership of conservative causes (see Apple, 1996, 2001a). Neoliberals, neoconservatives, and ...
... involved in convincing large numbers of people who might otherwise not be susceptible to ideological "conversions" to come under the leadership of conservative causes (see Apple, 1996, 2001a). Neoliberals, neoconservatives, and ...
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... involved in practical activities to transform educational and cultural institutions and policies (see, e.g., Apple Sc Beane, 1995). "Through" also has multiple senses to it. It not only 16 THE STATE AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE.
... involved in practical activities to transform educational and cultural institutions and policies (see, e.g., Apple Sc Beane, 1995). "Through" also has multiple senses to it. It not only 16 THE STATE AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE.
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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