Cultural Politics and Education

Cultural Politics and Education
ISBN-10
0807735035
ISBN-13
9780807735039
Category
Political Science
Pages
149
Language
English
Published
1996-06-15
Publisher
Teachers College Press
Author
Michael W. Apple

Description

Michael Apple offers a powerful analysis of current debates and a compelling indictment of rightist proposals for change. Apple presents the causes and effects of further integrating schools into the corporate agenda, as well as current calls for a national curriculum and national testing, privatization and voucher plans, and fundamentalist religious pressures to censor textbooks. He demonstrates who will be the winners and losers culturally and economically as the conservative restoration gains in strength, bringing with it an even greater restratification of knowledge and students in terms of race, class, and gender.

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