Cultural Politics and Education

Author: Michael W. Apple (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Since the 1990s, conservative forces have gained prominence in the field of education in the United States, while public education has fallen into crisis due to widespread criticism. With the resurgence of conservative power, more schools have been incorporated into market-driven processes. Apple provides a perceptive and profound insight into the roots and consequences of this issue, offering a strong critique of the right-wing control over educational discourse and the series of educational reforms they haveed. This book focuses on the complex relationships and mechanisms between education and economic, political, and cultural power. Apple employs contemporary social theory to analyze how educational policies are interconnected with social processes, highlighting the broad and close ties between education and external economic, cultural, and ideological forces. This book is one of Apple's more realistic and engaging works. Professor Jefferey Weeks, a sociologist of education, recommends: All educators concerned with social justice should read this book.