The Subaltern Speak: Curriculum, Power, and Educational Struggles

by Apple; Michael W.

• ISBN13: 9780415950817
• ISBN10: 0415950813
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-12
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

The question of whose perspective, experience, and history is privileged in educational institutions has shaped curriculum debates for decades. In this insightful collection, Michael W. Apple and Kristen L. Buras interrogate the notion that some knowledge is worth more than others. The Subaltern Speak combines an analysis of the ways in which various forms of power now operate, with a specific focus on spaces in which subaltern groups act to reassert their own perceived identities, cultures, and histories.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction The Subaltern Speak: Curriculum, Power, and Educational Struggles	1	(42)
KRISTEN L. BURAS AND MICHAEL W. APPLE
The Subaltern Speak: In Whose Voices?
1 Tracing the Core Knowledge Movement: History Lessons from Above and Below	43	(32)
KRISTEN L. BURAS
2 "We Are the New Oppressed": Gender, Culture, and the Work of Home Schooling	75	(20)
MICHAEL W. APPLE
3 Can the Subaltern Act? African American Involvement in Educational Voucher Plans	95	(26)
THOMAS C. PEDRONI
The Subaltern Speak: National Contexts
4 "In My History Classes They Always Turn Things Around, the Opposite Way": Indigenous Youth Opposition to Cultural Domination in an Urban High School	121	(20)
GLENABAH MARTINEZ
5 Rethinking Grassroots Activism: Chicana Resistance in the 1968 East Los Angeles School Blowouts	141	(22)
DOLORES DELGADO BERNAL
6 Detraction, Fear, and Assimilation: Race, Sexuality, and Education Reform Post-9/11	163	(14)
KEVIN K. KUMASHIRO
7 Subaltern in Paradise: Knowledge Production in the Corporate Academy	177	(20)
STANLEY ARONOWITZ
The Subaltern Speak: International Contexts
8 Struggling for Recognition: The State, Oppositional Movements, and Curricular Change	197	(20)
JYH-JIA CHEN
9 Creating Real Alternatives to Neoliberal Policies in Education: The Citizen School Project	217	(26)
LUIS ARMANDO GANDIN
10 Toward a Subaltern Cosmopolitan Multiculturalism	243	(28)
KRISTEN L. BURAS AND PAULINO MOTTER
11 Speaking Back to Official Knowledge	271	(14)
MICHAEL W. APPLE AND KRISTEN L. BURAS
About the Contributors	285	(2)
Index	287