Power, Meaning, and Identity: Essays in Critical Educational Studies

by Apple, Michael W.

• ISBN13: 9780820444277
• ISBN10: 0820444278
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

Michael W. Apple's critical writings have been influential throughout the world. This collection brings together many of his essays on curriculum, evaluation, and critical educational and cultural theory. In clear and unmystified prose, these essays enhance our understanding of how thoroughly political educational policies and practices actually are. In the process, he illuminates the histories and realities of class, race, and gender in education. Combining work written for a broad and general audience with that aimed at those who are already grounded in the multiple traditions of critical educational studies, Apple's unique voice--nuanced, passionate, and clear--comes through.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
INTRODUCTION	1	(28)
The Personal and the Political in Critical Educational Studies	3	(26)
THE STATE OF THE FIELD	29	(42)
The Politics of Official Knowledge in the United States	31	(14)
There Is a River: James B. Macdonald and Curricular Tradition	45	(8)
Social Evaluation of Curriculum	53	(18)
THE CURRICULUM AS COMPROMISED KNOWLEDGE	71	(64)
Power and Culture in the Report of the Committee of Ten	73	(12)
Do the Standards Go Far Enough?	85	(28)
How the Conservative Restoration Is Justified	113	(22)
DOING CRITICAL THEORY	135	(114)
Education, Culture, and Class Power	137	(28)
Power, Meaning, and Identity	165	(32)
Freire, Neoliberalism, and Education	197	(24)
Between Neo and Post in Critical Educational Studies	221	(22)
Epilogue	243	(6)
Index	249