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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... situations that have not been previously studied, we are able not only to criticize previous theories of the role of schooling that have been accepted and too easily generalized, but also to show how very different hegemonic strategies ...
... situations that have not been previously studied, we are able not only to criticize previous theories of the role of schooling that have been accepted and too easily generalized, but also to show how very different hegemonic strategies ...
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... situations. It involves the power to define what counts as "legitimate" areas of agreement and disagreement. And it points to the ability of dominant groups to shape which political agendas are made public and are to be discussed as ...
... situations. It involves the power to define what counts as "legitimate" areas of agreement and disagreement. And it points to the ability of dominant groups to shape which political agendas are made public and are to be discussed as ...
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... situation in which a rejection of the state's subject positions also resulted in the taking up of anti- school and right-wing identities by a large number of people within the community. Therefore, as this case will document, there is ...
... situation in which a rejection of the state's subject positions also resulted in the taking up of anti- school and right-wing identities by a large number of people within the community. Therefore, as this case will document, there is ...
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... situation. Context and the balance of power in the specific situation do count. This is one of the reasons why we need to be cautious of what might be called the productivist or genetic fallacy. This assumes, often wrongly, that the ...
... situation. Context and the balance of power in the specific situation do count. This is one of the reasons why we need to be cautious of what might be called the productivist or genetic fallacy. This assumes, often wrongly, that the ...
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... me illuminates the role of the state in creating the conditions for antistatist movements. It critically examines what seems like an "ordinary situation," a controversy over the 18 THE STATE AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE.
... me illuminates the role of the state in creating the conditions for antistatist movements. It critically examines what seems like an "ordinary situation," a controversy over the 18 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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