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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Page 1
... textbooks are approved, who does well in schools and who does not, who has the right to ask and answer these questions, and so on — is by definition political. Thus, as inherently part of a set of political institutions, the educational ...
... textbooks are approved, who does well in schools and who does not, who has the right to ask and answer these questions, and so on — is by definition political. Thus, as inherently part of a set of political institutions, the educational ...
Page 8
... textbook adoption committees found largely in the South and West have an immense influence on what gets published and sold for use in schools. Thus much of what teachers teach in Wisconsin, for example, is very strongly influenced by ...
... textbook adoption committees found largely in the South and West have an immense influence on what gets published and sold for use in schools. Thus much of what teachers teach in Wisconsin, for example, is very strongly influenced by ...
Page 10
... textbook adoption policies — the fact that the state is classed, gendered, and raced. These dynamics are not "add-ons" but are part of the very constitution of the state. It is not as if there are government policies on the economy or ...
... textbook adoption policies — the fact that the state is classed, gendered, and raced. These dynamics are not "add-ons" but are part of the very constitution of the state. It is not as if there are government policies on the economy or ...
Page 14
... textbook publishing, largely conservative and "dumbed-down" textbooks will produce conservative and dumbed-down teaching. At times this may be the case, and just as certainly much of the current overemphasis on testing and reductive ...
... textbook publishing, largely conservative and "dumbed-down" textbooks will produce conservative and dumbed-down teaching. At times this may be the case, and just as certainly much of the current overemphasis on testing and reductive ...
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... textbook, and shows how it is in such ordinary circumstances that rightist movements grow. As we demonstrate, they grow in halting, diffuse, and partly indeterminate ways that are located in an entire complex of economic, political, and ...
... textbook, and shows how it is in such ordinary circumstances that rightist movements grow. As we demonstrate, they grow in halting, diffuse, and partly indeterminate ways that are located in an entire complex of economic, political, and ...
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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