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Official Knowledge
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 46.95A powerful examination of the rightist resurgence in education and the challenges it presents to concerned educators, Official Knowledge analyzes the effects of conservative beliefs and strategies on educational policy and practice. Apple looks specifically at the conservative agenda's incursion into education through the curriculum, textbook... more...
Ideology and Curriculum
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 160.00When Ideology and Curriculum was first published in 1979 it was quickly established as a path breaking statement on the relationship between cultural and economic power in education. It has been translated into many languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, and Greek, and it has had a profound impact on the debates about education... more...
Ideology and Curriculum
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 39.95To 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... more...
The State and the Politics of Knowledge
RoutledgeFalmer 2003; US$ 43.95Michael W. Apple has assembled established and emerging scholars to show how political institutions regulate knowledge and legitimate certain versions of culture. more...
Educating the 'Right' Way
Routledge 2006; US$ 29.95''Educating the ''Right'' Way'' provided a detailed and systematic critical analysis of the growing power of conservative movements in educational policy and practice.. Since its publication, the worrisome trends it analyzes have worsened and have come into the very center of education in countries throughout the world. In this revised edition, noted... more...
Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 40.95Education 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... more...
Education and Power
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 48.95First published in 1982, Education and Power remains an important volume for those committed to critical education. In this text Michael Apple first articulated his theory on educational institutions and the reproduction of and resistance to unequal power relations, and provided a thorough examination of the ways in which race-gender-class dynamics... more...
Can Education Change Society?
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95Despite 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... more...
Knowledge, Power, and Education
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 150.00For 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,... more...
Educating the Right Way
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 43.95In 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... more...









