Michael W. Apple

Educating the Right Way (eBook, ePUB)

Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This thoroughly revised edition of Educating the "Right" Way brings readers up to date on what are now clearly lasting transformations in the movements, ideologies, assumptions, structures, and practices of education.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136284168
• Artikelnr.: 45133090

Autorenporträt

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 Ideologyand 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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality. Introduction. Joseph's Story.
Conservative Agendas. Mapping the Right. Contested Freedom. Marketizing the
World. Restoring. Cultural Order. Church and State. Economics and religion.
Managerialism. Analyzing Conservative Modernization. 2. Whose Markets,
Whose Knowledge? Introduction. Neoliberalism: Schooling, Choice, and
Democracy. Neoconservatism: Teaching "Real Knowledge". Authoritarian
Populism: Schooling as God Wanted It. The Professional and Managerial New
Middle Class: More Testing, More Often 3. Producing Inequalities:
Conservative Modernization in Policy and Practice. Gritty Materialities.
Right Turn. New Markets, Old Traditions. Markets and Performance. National
Standards, National Curriculum, and National Testing. Creating Educational
Triage. Thinking Strategically. 4. Who "No Child Left Behind" Leaves
Behind: Class and Race in Audit Cultures. Introduction: What No Child Left
Behind Has Given Us. Accountability and Inequality. Changing Commonsense
and the Growth of Audit Cultures. New Managerialism in Class Terms. The
Dispossessed and Support for Audit Cultures and Markets. On Possibilities.
Workable Alternatives. Being Honest About Educational Reform. 5. Endangered
Christianity. Darwin, God, and Evil. Secular Dangers. From Insiders to
Outsiders. Southern Cross. 6. God, Morality, and Markets. Bringing God to
the World. Politics and the Clergy. The Electronic Clergy. A Christian
Nation and Free Speech. Godless Schools. We Are Not Doing Anything
Different. The Structures of Feeling of Authoritarian Populism. How Can
Hate Seem So Nice. Turning Straw Into Gold. 7. Away with all Teachers: The
Cultural Politics of Home Schooling. Situating Home Schooling. Satan's
Threat and the Fortress Home. Attacking the State. Public and Private.
Conclusion. 8. Inside Home Schooling: Gender, Technology, and Curriculum.
Introduction. Resources and the Realities of Social Movements. Technology
and the Growth of Home Schooling. Understanding Social Movements.
Technology and Doing Home Schooling. Home Schooling as Gendered Labor.
Solving Contradictions. Marketing God. Emotional Labor and the Daily Life
of Curriculum and Teaching in the Home. Conclusion: Children and Living the
"Right" Life. 9. Righting Wrongs and Interrupting the Right. Culture Counts
Contradictory Reforms. "Racing" Toward Educational Reform. Making
Challenges Public. Thinking Heretically. Can Alliances be Built Across the
Religious and Secular Divide?. Making Critical Educational Practices
Practical. Hope as a Resource