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  • Official Knowledge

    Democratic Education in a Conservative Age

    by Michael W. Apple ...
    This third edition of Official Knowledge, a classic text from one of education’s most distinguished scholars, challenges readers to critically examine how certain knowledge comes to be “official,” and whose agendas this knowledge represents. A probing and award-winning study, this new edition builds on the tradition of its predecessors to question the rightist resurgence in education while ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Education and the Politics of Interruption

    Does the Right Always Win?

    Edited by Michael W. Apple, Iana Gomes De Lima, Luis Armando Gandin ...
    Education has become a crucial site of struggle in multiple nations of the world. Education and the Politics of Interruption examines how governments, schools, educators, communities, and parents have become central figures in the conflicts between authoritarian coalitions and progressive educational and social movements. In recent years, educators around the world have experienced increasingly ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Engaging Critical Pedagogy in Education

    Global Phenomenon, Local Praxis

    Edited by Fida Sanjakdar, Michael W. Apple ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    Presenting cutting-edge research from around the world, this book demonstrates how critical pedagogy is shaped by social-political contexts and ideological constructions of knowledge and power.The edited collection brings together a global author team using critical pedagogy to synthesise political and theoretical ambitions with the complex realities of classroom practice. The book addresses two ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Educating the Right Way

    Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality

    by Michael W. Apple ...
    In this book Apple explores the 'conservative restoration' - the rightward turn of a broad-based coalition that is making successful inroads in determining American and international educational policy. It takes a pragmatic look at what critical educators can do to build alternative coalitions and policies that are more democratic. Apple urges this group to extricate itself from its reliance on ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education

    Edited by Michael W. Apple ...
    Education cannot be understood today without recognizing that nearly all educational policies and practices are strongly influenced by an increasingly integrated international economy. Reforms in one country have significant effects in others, just as immigration and population tides from one area to another have tremendous impacts on what counts as official knowledge and responsive and effective ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Teachers and Texts

    A Political Economy of Class and Gender Relations in Education

    by Michael W. Apple ...
    First published in 1987, this research provides insight on the political economy of schooling and includes an analysis of power as they operate both within and outside of schools in the construction of class and gender relations. This is part of a series of volumes that have begun to enquire into the relationship between the curriculum and teaching that is found in our formal institutions of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Disrupting Hate in Education

    Teacher Activists, Democracy, and Global Pedagogies of Interruption

    Edited by Rita Verma, Michael W. Apple ...
    Disrupting Hate in Education aims to identify and respond to the ideological forms of hate and fear that are present in schools, which echo larger nativist and populist agendas. Contributions to this volume are international in scope, providing powerful examples from US schools and communities, examining anti-extremism work in the UK, the "saffronization" of schools in India, struggles to re ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Critical Studies of Education in Asia

    Knowledge, Power and the Politics of Curriculum Reforms

    Edited by Leonel Lim, Michael W. Apple ...
    Critical Studies of Education in Asia features analyses that take seriously the complex postcolonial, historical, and cultural consciousnesses felt across societies in Asia, and that bring these to bear on the changing terrain of knowledge, subjectivities, and power relations constructed both within schools and across the public sphere.In documenting the multiple sites of conflict and contestation ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Re-imagining Education for Democracy

    Edited by Stewart Riddle, Michael W. Apple ...
    Contemporary education research, policy and practice are complex and challenging. The political struggle over what constitutes curriculum and pedagogy is framed by quasi-markets and technocratic models of education. This has had a significant effect on larger issues of policy. But it has also had profound effects inside educational sites in terms of the economics and politics of what is and is not ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Can Education Change Society?

    by Michael W. Apple ...
    Despite the vast differences between the Right and the Left over the role of education in the production of inequality one common element both sides share is a sense that education can and should do something about society, to either restore what is being lost or radically alter what is there now. The question was perhaps put most succinctly by the radical educator George Counts in 1932 when he ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Struggle for Democracy in Education

    Lessons from Social Realities

    by Michael W. Apple ...
    The Struggle for Democracy in Education extends the insightful arguments Michael W. Apple provided in Can Education Change Society? It provides detailed examinations of both local and system-wide struggles around conflicting versions of democracy. Grounded in a key set of ethical and political responsibilities for those who care deeply about education, Apple and his co-authors interrogate ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Critical Literacy

    What Every American Needs to Know

    by Eugene F. Provenzo, Michael W. Apple ...
    In Critical Literacy Eugene F. Provenzo Jr. challenges E. D. Hirsch's assumptions about culture and education. Calling for a broader and more democratic vision than Hirsch, Provenzo critiques Hirsch's legacy up through the current conservative educational agenda for education which, he argues, denies, not only the United States' diversity, but its democratic traditions of democratic participation. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD