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Author Apple, Michael W

Title Knowledge, Power, and Education : the Selected Works of Michael W. Apple
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (297 pages)
Contents Front Cover -- Knowledge, Power, and Education -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 On Being a Scholar/Activist: An Introduction to Knowledge, Power, and Education -- 2 On Analyzing Hegemony -- 3 Commonsense Categories and the Politics of Labeling -- 4 Seeing Education Relationally: The Stratification of Culture and People in the Sociology of School Knowledge (with Lois Weis) -- 5 Curricular Form and the Logic of Technical Control: Commodification Returns -- 6 Controlling the Work of Teachers -- 7 The Other Side of the Hidden Curriculum: Culture as Lived-I -- 8 The Culture and Commerce of the Textbook -- 9 Cultural Politics and the Text -- 10 Consuming the Other: Whiteness, Education, and Cheap French Fries -- 11 The Politics of Official Knowledge: Does a National Curriculum Make Sense? -- 12 Producing Inequalities: Conservative Modernization in Policy and Practice -- 13 "We Are the New Oppressed": Gender, Culture, and the Work of Home Schooling -- 14 Global Crises, Social Justice, and Teacher Education -- About the Author -- Index
Summary For more than three decades, Michael W. Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching, and power in education. His germinal Ideology and Curriculum was a watershed title in critical education studies, and has remained in print since its publication in 1979. The more than two dozen books and hundreds of papers, articles, and chapters published since have likewise all contributed to a greater understanding of the relationship between and among the economy, political, and cultural power in society on the one hand ""and the ways in which education
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Subject Critical pedagogy.
Education -- Curricula.
Education and state.
Educational sociology.
curricula.
Critical pedagogy
Education and state
Education -- Curricula
Educational sociology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136307829
1136307826