The State and the Politics of Knowledge

by Apple,Michael W.

• ISBN13: 9780415935128
• ISBN10: 0415935121
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-28
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

Formal education, by and large, is organized and controlled by the government. This means that by its very nature the entire schooling process - how it is paid for, who chooses the textbooks and even who has the right to answer these questions - is political. A powerful critical analysis of past and current efforts to use education for political purposes-liberal conservative-tState and the Politics of Knowledgeoffers compelling portraits of the role education plays in struggles over colonialism, nationalism, religion, class, gender, and sexuality. Not only does Apple shows us how politics informs educational policy and knowledge, Apple turns the question around and asks how education can be used in the service of fostering democratic and socially critical policies and connecting these policies to broader social movements. He answers this question with an international perspective, refining our ideas about the state and education, and finds critical, empirical, historical and practical tools,as well as examples of how these tools might be used effectively to form collective political action. Based on Apple's previous criticisms of dominant attempts to reform education,State and the Politics of Knowledgedescribes how to interrupt this dominance and create truly democratic and realistic alternatives to the ways markets, standards, and testing are now being forced onto schools.

Author Biography

Michael W. Apple is John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
The State and the Politics of Knowledge	1	(24)
Michael W. Apple
Becoming Right: Education and the Formation of Conservative Movements	25	(26)
Michael W. Apple
Anita Oliver
Reading Polynesian Barbie: Iterations of Race, Nation, and State	51	(30)
Hannah Tavares
Rethinking the Education--State Formation Connection: The State, Cultural Struggles, and Changing the School	81	(28)
Ting-Hong Wong
Michael W. Apple
What Happened to Social-Democratic Progressivism in Scandinavia? Restructuring Education in Sweden and Norway in the 1990s	109	(40)
Petter Aasen
Schooling, Work, and Subjectivity	149	(28)
Misook Kim Cho
Michael W. Apple
Democracy, Technology, and Curriculum: Lessons from the Critical Practices of Korean Teachers	177	(16)
Youl-Kwan Sung
Michael W. Apple
Educating the State, Democratizing Knowledge: The Citizen School Project in Porto Alegre, Brazil	193	(28)
Luis Armando Gandin
Michael W. Apple
Afterword	221	(6)
Michael W. Apple
Notes	227	(8)
References	235	(16)
Contributors	251	(2)
Index	253