Education and Power

First published in 1982, Education and Power remains an important volume for those committed to critical education. In this text Michael Apple first articulated his theory on educational Institutions and the reproduction of and resistance to unequal power relations, and provided a thorough Examination of the ways in which race-gender-class dynamics are embedded in, and reflected through, curricular issues. While many of the Theories set forward in this Book are now taken for granted by the left in education, they were nothing short of revolutionary when first proposed.

Michael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Preface to the Third Edition

Preface to the 1995 Edition

Preface to the Ark Edition

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Reproduction , Contestation and Curriculum

Chapter 2: Technical Knowledge, Deviance, and the State The Commodification of Culture

Chapter 3: The Other Side of the Hidden Curriculum Culture as Lived—I

Chapter 4: Resistance and Contradictions in Class, Culture, and the State Culture as Lived—II

Chapter 5: Curricular Form and the Logic of Technical Control Commodification Returns

Chapter 6: Educational and Political work Is Success Possible?

Notes

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