Knowledge, Power, and Education: The Selected Works of Michael W. Apple(World Library of Educationalists)

For more than three decades, Michael W. Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching, and power in education. His germinal Ideology and Curriculum was a watershed title in critical education studies, and has remained in print since its publication in 1979. The more than two dozen books and hundreds of papers, articles, and chapters published since have likewise all contributed to a greater understanding of 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. In this collection, Apple brings together 13 of his key writings in one place, providing an overview not just of his own career, but of the larger development of the field. A new introduction re- examines the scope of his work and his earlier arguments, and reflects on what remains to be done for those committed to critical education.

Table of Contents:
CHAPTER 1 On Being a Scholar/Activist: An Introduction to Knowledge, Power, and Education CHAPTER 2 On Analyzing Hegemony CHAPTER 3 Commonsense Categories and the Politics of Labeling CHAPTER 4 Seeing Education Relationally: The Stratification of Culture and People in the Sociology of School Knowledge (with Lois Weis) CHAPTER 5 Curricular Form and the Logic of Technical Control: Commodification Returns CHAPTER 6 Controlling the Work of Teachers CHAPTER 7 The Other Side of the Hidden Curriculum: Culture as Lived CHAPTER 8 The Culture and Commerce of the Textbook CHAPTER 9 Cultural Politics and the Text CHAPTER 10 Consuming the Other: Whiteness, Education, and Cheap French Fries CHAPTER 11 The Politics of Official Knowledge: Does a National Curriculum Make Sense? CHAPTER 12 Producing Inequalities: Conservative Modernization in Policy and Practice CHAPTER 13 We Are the New Oppressed: Gender, Culture, and the Work of Home Schooling CHAPTER 14 Global Crises, Social Justice, and Teacher Education

About the Author :
Michael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Curriuclum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

Review :
"...these books (Can Education Change Society? and Knowledge, Power, and Education) together reminds us that all our individual and local counter-hegemonic efforts in our own colleges, departments, and home communities need to reach out to similar and more regional and national movements. It is the only through such efforts of counter-hegemonic extension that "decentered unities" are formed and Badiouian events occur. Although Badiouian events appear to happen suddenly and out of nowhere, in fact they typically follow years and decades (sometime centuries) of counter-hegemonic struggle.Apple's body of work, generally, and his most recent two books in particular, are a reminder and guide to the "realization of the importance of understanding the connections amoung intersecting power relations and working toward the long-term goals involved in building [what Williams called] 'the long revolution'" - Hans G Despain, Nichols College Massachusetts, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books