Knowledge Power and Education

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