Includes bibliographical references and index.

This text provides a systematic evaluation of the work of Michael Apple, one of the influential critical sociologist of education in the US. The essays in this book offer a review of the development of education systems and the curricula, and the cultural practices within them. 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" on the other. This edited collection invites several of the world's leading education scholars to reflect on the relationships between education and power and the continued impact of Apple's scholarship. Like Apple's work itself, the essays will span a range of disciplines and inequalities; emancipatory educational practices; and the linkage between the economy and race, class and gender formation in relation to schools.

Electronic reproduction. Askews and Holts. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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