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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 26
Page 2
... neoliberal "reforms" in education (such as attempts at mar- ketization through voucher and privatization plans) ... neoliberal and authoritarian populist- inspired market proposals and neoliberaL neoconservative, and middle- class ...
... neoliberal "reforms" in education (such as attempts at mar- ketization through voucher and privatization plans) ... neoliberal and authoritarian populist- inspired market proposals and neoliberaL neoconservative, and middle- class ...
Page 5
... neoliberals and neoconservatives are already predisposed to reject such critical arguments (Apple, 2000, 2001a). But we help them along by writing as if evidence was an afterthought. The authors in this book will have none of this. In ...
... neoliberals and neoconservatives are already predisposed to reject such critical arguments (Apple, 2000, 2001a). But we help them along by writing as if evidence was an afterthought. The authors in this book will have none of this. In ...
Page 8
... neoliberal and neoconservative policies, the book extends and widens the scope of many of the arguments I make in Educating the "Right" Way (2001a) and makes them truly global. I noted above that the state clearly regulates the politics ...
... neoliberal and neoconservative policies, the book extends and widens the scope of many of the arguments I make in Educating the "Right" Way (2001a) and makes them truly global. I noted above that the state clearly regulates the politics ...
Page 10
... neoliberal or liberal versions of the market as "ideologies or truth claims." Instead, we need to think of them as ... neoliberalism is what might be called a "strong discourse." It 1O THE STATE AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE.
... neoliberal or liberal versions of the market as "ideologies or truth claims." Instead, we need to think of them as ... neoliberalism is what might be called a "strong discourse." It 1O THE STATE AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE.
Page 11
Michael W. Apple. neoliberalism is what might be called a "strong discourse." It has the means of "making itself true ... neoliberal- ism, which is usually seen as an attack on and a rolling back of the state, is not at all like this in ...
Michael W. Apple. neoliberalism is what might be called a "strong discourse." It has the means of "making itself true ... neoliberal- ism, which is usually seen as an attack on and a rolling back of the state, is not at all like this in ...
Contents
1 | |
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 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
active Apple Brazil career education CCCV central chapter Chinese schools cial Citizen School classroom colonial commercial high school complex conservative construction created critical critical pedagogy crucial cultural curricula decentralization democracy democratic discourse discussion dominant economic educa educational policy educational system electronic mailing list factory Federation of Malaya formation forms gender groups Hawaii Hawaiian hegemonic historical identity ideological implemented important individual institutions involved issues Korean labor Malay Malaya Mattel's meaning ment Michael W moral Nanyang University national curriculum neo-Gramscian neoconservative neoliberal Norway official knowledge parents participation pedagogic device People's Action Party political Polynesian Barbie Popular Administration Porto Alegre position postmodern practices problems production progressivism relations responsibility rightist role Scandinavian school council SCJP secondary Singapore situation SMED social movements social-democratic society specific struggles studies Sweden syllabi teachers teaching textbooks tion tional traditional transformation workers