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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... issues with which this book deals. Among these 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 ...
... issues with which this book deals. Among these 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 ...
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... issues surrounding what curricula and methods of instruction should be used in our schools. Think for instance of the whole language- versus- phonics debate and the immense political controversies this has demonstrated in local ...
... issues surrounding what curricula and methods of instruction should be used in our schools. Think for instance of the whole language- versus- phonics debate and the immense political controversies this has demonstrated in local ...
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... 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 these and ...
... 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 these and ...
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... issues are insufficient. Official knowledge is taught within specific kinds of institutions, with their own histories, tensions, political economies, hierarchies, and bureaucratic needs and interests. Therefore, thinking about school ...
... issues are insufficient. Official knowledge is taught within specific kinds of institutions, with their own histories, tensions, political economies, hierarchies, and bureaucratic needs and interests. Therefore, thinking about school ...
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... state/knowledge/power connection does not exhaust the issues with which we must deal. As I noted earlier, questions about who decides and about how bureaucratic and administrative needs and demands structure the Michael W. Apple 1 1.
... state/knowledge/power connection does not exhaust the issues with which we must deal. As I noted earlier, questions about who decides and about how bureaucratic and administrative needs and demands structure the Michael W. Apple 1 1.
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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