Ideology and Curriculum

Ideology and Curriculum
Author: Michael W. Apple
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0415949114

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its publication, Michael W. Apple has thoroughly updated his influential text, and written a new preface. The new edition also includes an extended interview circa 2001, in which Apple relates the critical agenda outlined in Ideology and Curriculum to the more contemporary conservative climate. Finally, a new chapter titled "Pedagogy, Patriotism and Democracy: Ideology and Education After 9/11" is also included.

Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education

Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education
Author: Lois Weis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136284230

For more than three decades Michael Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching and power in education. Beginning with Ideology and Curriculum (1979), Apple moved to understand the relationship between and among the economy, political and cultural power in society on the one hand "and the ways in which education is thought about, organized and evaluated" on the other. This edited collection invites several of the world's leading education scholars to reflect on the relationships between education and power and the continued impact of Apple's scholarship. Like Apple's work itself, the essays will span a range of disciplines and inequalities; emancipatory educational practices; and the linkage between the economy and race, class and gender formation in relation to schools.

Curriculum Theory

Curriculum Theory
Author: Michael Schiro
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 141298890X

The Second Edition of Curriculum Theory: Conflicting Visions and Enduring Concerns by Michael Stephen Schiro presents a clear, unbiased, and rigorous description of the major curriculum philosophies that have influenced educators and schooling over the last century. The author analyzes four educational visions—Scholar Academic, Social Efficiency, Learner Centered, and Social Reconstruction—to enable readers to reflect on their own educational beliefs and more productively interact with educators who might hold different beliefs.

Big Brother and the National Reading Curriculum

Big Brother and the National Reading Curriculum
Author: Richard L. Allington
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN:

In this timely and important book, nationally-recognized reading researcher Richard Allington tracks and questions the 30-year campaign that has focused on testing, accountability, and federalization of education.

Cultural Politics and Education

Cultural Politics and Education
Author: Michael W. Apple
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1996-06-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780807735039

Michael Apple offers a powerful analysis of current debates and a compelling indictment of rightist proposals for change. Apple presents the causes and effects of further integrating schools into the corporate agenda, as well as current calls for a national curriculum and national testing, privatization and voucher plans, and fundamentalist religious pressures to censor textbooks. He demonstrates who will be the winners and losers culturally and economically as the conservative restoration gains in strength, bringing with it an even greater restratification of knowledge and students in terms of race, class, and gender.

Education and Power

Education and Power
Author: Michael W. Apple
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136499652

In his seminal volume first published in 1982 Michael Apple articulates his theory on educational institutions and the reproduction of unequal power relations and provides a thorough examination of the ways in which race-gender-class dynamics are embedded in, and reflected through, curricular issues. This second edition contains a re-examination of earlier arguments as well as reflections on recent changes in education.

Educating the Right Way

Educating the Right Way
Author: Michael W. Apple
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136284168

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 the language of possibility in order to employ pragmatic analyses that address the material realities of social power.

School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective

School Knowledge in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Author: Aaron Benavot
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 325
Release: 2007-06-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1402057350

In this special edited volume, scholars with diverse backgrounds and conceptual frameworks explore how economic, political, social and ideological forces impact on school curricula over time and place. In providing regional and global perspectives on curricular policies, practices and reforms, the authors move beyond the conventional notion that school contents reflect principally national priorities and subject-based interests.

Can Education Change Society?

Can Education Change Society?
Author: Michael W. Apple
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0415875323

In this groundbreaking work, Apple pushes educators toward a more substantial understanding of what schools do and what we can do to challenge the relations of dominance and subordination in the larger society.