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Record Nr.

UNINA9910800087503321

Autore

Apple Michael W.

Titolo

Knowledge, power, and education : the selected works of Michael W. Apple / / Michael W. Apple

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-30781-8

0-203-11811-1

1-283-89403-3

1-136-30782-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

World library of educationalists series

Classificazione

EDU000000

Disciplina

370.11/5

Soggetti

Critical pedagogy

Educational sociology

Education and state

Education - Curricula

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Textbook9 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

Sommario/riassunto

"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 is thought about, organized, and evaluated" on the other. In this collection, Apple brings together 13 of his key writings in one place, providing an overview not just of his own career, but of the larger development of the field. A new introduction re-examines the scope of his work and his earlier arguments, and reflects on what remains to be done for those committed to critical education"--