State and the Politics of Knowledge

The State and the Politics of Knowledge extends the insightful arguments Michael Apple provided in Educatingthe &quote;Right&quote; Way in new and truly international directions. Arguing that schooling is, by definition, political, Apple and his co-authors move beyond a critical analysis to describe numerous ways of interrupting dominance and creating truly democratic and realistic alternatives to the ways markets, standards, testing, and a limited vision of religion are now being pressed into schools.