Educating the Right Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality - Hardcover

Apple, Michael W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415952719 ISBN 13: 9780415952712

Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

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 and policies that are more democratic. Apple urges this group to extricate itself from its reliance on the language of possibility in order to employ pragmatic analyses that address the material realities of social power.

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Synopsis

Michael W. Apple shows how recent years have seen a powerful conservative backlash against what is seen by many as the failing of modern schools: people have clamoured for a return to "values" and religion - specifically evangelical Christianity - and many column inches have been devoted to standards, results, testing and curriculum content. While it is positive to see education at the centre of public debate, Apple here argues that not all the forces of conservatism have any business telling educators how schools should be run and what our children should be taught. Updated for the second edition to include recent major shifts in policy and important legislation such as No Child Left Behind, and forwarding suggestions for real workable alternatives, this is essential reading for anyone who is concerned with what is happening in schools, and wants to do something about it.

About the Author

Professor Michael W Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A former primary and secondary school teacher a past-president of a teachers union, he has worked with educators, unions, dissident groups, and governments throughout the world to democratize educational research, policy, and practice. Among his many books are Ideology and Curriculum, Education and Power, Teachers and Texts, and Official Knowledge Power, Meaning and Identity. Not only has Professor Apple been selected as one of the most influential writers on education in the 20th century, but his book Ideology and Curriculum has been chosen as one of the 20 most important volumes in the history of western education.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0415952719
• ISBN 13: 9780415952712
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 370