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Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education: Revisiting the Work of Michael Apple book cover

1st Edition

Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education Revisiting the Work of Michael Apple

Edited By Lois Weis, Greg Dimitriadis, Cameron McCarthy Copyright 2006
282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge
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For more than three decades Michael Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching and power in education. Beginning with Ideology and Curriculum (1979), Apple moved to understand the relationship between and among the economy, political and cultural power in society on the one hand "and the ways in which education is thought about, organized and evaluated"... Read more
Introduction. Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education: Revisiting the Work of Michael Apple, Greg Dimitriadis, Lois Weis, and Cameron McCarthy  Section One: Revisiting the New Sociology of Education  1. Retrieving the Ideological Past: Critical Sociology, Gender Theory and the School Curriculum  2. Social Class, School Knowledge, and the Hidden Curriculum: Re-Theorizing Reproduction  3. Schooling, Power, and the Exile of the Soul  Section Two: Contemporary Theoretical Challenges  4. Riding Tensions Critically: Ideology, Power/Knowledge, and Curriculum
Making  5. Are We Making Progress?: Ideology and Curriculum in the Age of "No
Child Left Behind"  6. Teaching After the Market: From Commodity to Cosmopolitan  Section Three: On Spaces of Possibility  7. Contesting Research Rearticulation and "Thick Democracy" as Political Projects of Method  8. [Re]visioning Knowledge, Politics, and Change: Educational Poetics  9. Situating Education: Michael Apple's Scholarship and Political Commitment in the Brazilian Context.  Afterword. Critical Education, Politics, and the Real World

Biography

Lois Weis is Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the State University of Buffalo, NY.
Cameron McCarthy is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Greg Dimitriadis is Assistant Professor, Sociology of Education concentration, Social Foundations of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Buffalo, The state University of New York.

"Though the book does not explicitly deal with the teaching of religion per se, instructors of Religious Studies or Theology will find the book an excellent jumping off point for discussions on the meaning of "education" and the purpose of "curriculum" in either discipline."--Michael Nichols, Teaching Theology & Religion (2009)

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