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1. Official Knowledge

   Democratic Education in a Conservative Age, 3rd Edition

   By Michael W. Apple, Michael W. Apple

   This third edition of Official Knowledge, the classic text from one of the world’s most distinguished education scholars, encourages educators once again to critically examine the relationship among knowledge, power, and education. Rather than simply asking whether students have mastered a...

   To Be Published January 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Can Education Change Society?

   By Michael W. Apple

   Despite 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....

   To Be Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
3. Education and Power

   By Michael W. Apple

   Series: Routledge Education Classic Edition Series

   First 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...

   Published October 20th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education

   Edited by Michael W. Apple, Stephen J. Ball, Luis Armando Gandin

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

   This collection brings together many of the world’s leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. The thirty-seven newly commissioned chapters draw upon theory and research to provide new accounts of contemporary educational processes,...

   Published March 1st 2011 by Routledge
5. The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education

   Edited by Michael W. Apple, Wayne Au, Luis Armando Gandin

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

   The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education is the first authoritative reference work to provide an international analysis of the relationship between power, knowledge, education, and schooling. Rather than focusing solely on questions of how we teach efficiently and effectively,...

   Published January 18th 2011 by Routledge
6. Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education

   Edited by Michael W. Apple

   Education 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...

   Published December 15th 2009 by Routledge
7. Educating the Right Way

   Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality, 2nd Edition

   By Michael W. Apple

   In 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...

   Published January 25th 2006 by Routledge
8. The Subaltern Speak

   Curriculum, Power, and Educational Struggles

   Edited by Michael W. Apple, Kristen L. Buras

   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...

   Published December 7th 2005 by Routledge
9. Ideology and Curriculum

   3rd Edition

   By Michael W. Apple

   To 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...

   Published February 18th 2004 by Routledge
10. The State and the Politics of Knowledge

    By Michael W. Apple

    The State and the Politics of Knowledge extends the insightful arguments Michael Apple provided in Educating the "Right" Way in new and truly international directions. Arguing that schooling is, by definition, political, Apple and his co-authors move beyond a critical analysis to describe numerous...

    Published March 20th 2003 by Routledge