Education and Power (Routledge Education Classic Edition)
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (946 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415808103 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 246 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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Michael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
About the AuthorMichael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
First published in 1982, Education and Power remains an important volume for those committed to critical education. Education and Power is a vital example of the call to challenge the assumptions that underpin so much of what happens in education.. In this newly reissued classic edition, Apple suggests that we need to take seriously the complicated and contradictory economic, political and cultural structures that provide for some of the most important limits on, and possibilities for, 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 examination of the ways in which race-gender-class dynamics are embedded in, and reflected through, curricular issues. He re-examines his earlier arguments and reflects on what has happened
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