Acknowledgements
1: Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education -Michael W. Apple
2: New Literacies and New Rebellions in the Global Age -Ross Collin and Michael W. Apple
3: From the Conservative "Coup" to the New Beginning of Progressive Politics in Japanese Education -Keita Takayama
4: Israel/Palestine, Unequal Power, Power, and Movements for Democratic Education -Assaf Meshulam and Michael W. Apple
5: Popular Education Confronts Neoliberalism in the Public Sphere: The Struggle for Civil Society in Latin America -Erika Mein and Jen Sandler
6: Afterword on Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education -Michael W. Apple
Contributors
Index
Biography
Michael W. Apple is John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisonsin-Madison.
"I am always delighted to find scholarly work that connects dots in educational contexts around the planet. Michael Apple's book does just that."--Education Review
" Distinguished scholar Michael Apple has done it again! His book is solid and compassionate. It is documented and analytical, and more importantly it is as theoretical as it is a call for action and change. A great contribution."--Dr. Carlos Alberto Torres, Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education, UCLA; Director, Paulo Freire Institute
"With a combination of a potent theoretical framework and serious empirical work, this volume offers a fresh and nuanced take on the relation between globalization and education, dealing with the concrete ways people experience it."--Luis Armando Gandin, Professor of Sociology of Education, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
"In Global Crises, Social Justice and Education, Apple and his colleagues put before us a compelling set of accounts of education as a site of now globalizing political and social struggles. This collection offers us inspiration and hope, as well as a set of principles which might guide our struggles."--Susan Robertson, Professor Sociology of Education, University of Bristol, UK
