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"The Struggle for Democracy in Education extends the insightful arguments Michael Apple provided in Can Education Change Society? It provides detailed examination's of both local and system-wide struggles around conflicting versions of democracy. Grounded in a key set of ethical and political responsibilities for those who care deeply about education, Apple and his co-authors interrogate conflicting models of democratic education, one interested in the common good and the creation of critical citizens, the other market-oriented and meant to meet a set of more conservative economic needs. Through a series of powerful international case studies, this volume explores the contested terrain, combining powerful theory with the "stuff" of schools, political and pedagogical actions, and the lives of individuals. These detailed examination's provide the reader with a more nuanced understanding of how policy, history, and varied actors with varied agendas come together, and the very real people and systems that are impacted by these conflicts. The Struggle for Democracy in Education asks us to face and understand these myriad forces and actors--both progressive and retrogressive--and to ask what we can do to ensure that the education that is created is worthy of its name. In the process, the book gives us real examples of critically democratic education and what we can learn from these struggles" --

1. Reproduction and contradiction in education : an introduction / Michael W. Apple -- 2. Education and class formation : the peculiarities of the Americans / David Hogan -- 3. Education, economy and the state / Martin Carnoy -- 4. Education and the capitalist state : contributions and contradictions / Roger Dale -- 5. Schooling and the reproduction of patriarchy : unequal workloads, unequal rewards / Gail P. Kelly and Ann S. Nihlen -- 6. The arts in class reproduction / Paul DiMaggio and Michael Useem -- 7. Television's screens : hegemony in transition / Todd Gitlin -- 8. Curricular form and the logic of technical control : building the possessive individual / Michael W. Apple -- 9. Structure, text, and subject : a critical sociology of school knowledge / Philip Wexler -- 10. Codes, modalities and the process of cultural reproduction : a model / Basil Bernstein.

1. Introduction : the politics of official knowledge -- 2. The politics of common sense : why the right is winning -- 3. Cultural politics and the text -- 4. Regulating official knowledge -- 5. Creating the captive audience : Channel One and the political economy of the text -- 6. Whose curriculum is this anyway? / (with Susan Jungck) -- 7. "Hey man, I'm good" : the art and politics of creating new knowledge in schools -- 8. The politics of pedagogy and the building of community -- 9. Managerialism, labor, and emerging movements in the global university -- 10. A reason for hope? Changing minds and the fate of American schools.

1. Can education change society? -- 2. Paulo Freire and the tasks of the critical scholar/activist in education -- 3. George Counts and the politics of radical change -- 4. Du Bois, Woodson, and the politics of transformation -- 5. Keeping transformations alive : learning from the "South" -- 6. Wal-Marting America : social change and educational action -- 7. Critical education, speaking the truth, and acting back -- 8. Answering the question : education and social transformation.

In this book Apple explores the 'conservative restoration' - the rightward turn of a broad-based coalition that is making successful inroads in determining American and international educational policy. It takes a pragmatic look at what critical educators can do to build alternative coalitions and policies that are more democratic. Apple urges this group to extricate itself from its reliance on the language of possibility in order to employ pragmatic analyses that address the material realities of social 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. In this newly reissued c

Because is expressed in many ways and evokes complex responses, it demands various lines of analysis. Globalizing Education shows how this phenomenon is mediated and mitigated by a range of educational policies, pedagogies, and politics. It identifies the forms of educational governance associated with neoliberal globalism and their manifold effects on nation-state education systems, highlighting the colonizing minority-world imperatives and retraditionalizing ramifications. It also shows how the global cultural economy - the disjunctive flows of images, people, and ideas - both challenges and reinforces conventional educational trajectories. The global/national mesh-works created by drugs, technology, and unions are among the complicated connectivities explored. This book exposes the more pernicious effects on education of neo-liberal and corporate globalization and explores and identifies innovative and transformative educational policies, pedagogies, and politics