Acknowledgements 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" (Luis Armando Gandin and Michael W. Apple) 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 Bibliography Index
Michael W. Apple is John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.
"The strength of Apple's book is the combination of theoretical and
empirical approaches, which he analyses from a personal and
reflective perspective. He encourages us to think about our own
actions as educators in how we respond to the questions, ‘can
education change society?’….The great strength of this remarkable
and ground breaking work is Michael Apple’s own overwhelming
passion for justice, equality and his continuing fight to making a
real contribution to changing society. It’s an enjoyable and
engaging read that will appeal to education students, academics,
practitioners and activists who are equally committed to making a
more equitable and just society." - Kalwant Bhopal, University of
Southampton, UK, Race, Ethnicity and Education "Education can
certainly change society, but as Apple shows, not necessarily in
ways that critical and progressive educators might wish. He
encourages us to take heed of the conservative modernisation
efforts by the right through the alliance of neoliberal,
neoconservative and populist religious movements to use education
both as a site of, and a tool for, social transformation, in order
to learn how to bring about counter-hegemonic efforts." - Stewart
Riddle Faculty of Education, University of Southern Queensland,
Australia, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of
Education
"...these books (Can Education Change Society? and Knowledge,
Power, and Education) together reminds us that all our individual
and local counter-hegemonic efforts in our own colleges,
departments, and home communities need to reach out to similar and
more regional and national movements. It is the only through such
efforts of counter-hegemonic extension that "decentered unities"
are formed and Badiouian events occur. Although Badiouian events
appear to happen suddenly and out of nowhere, in fact they
typically follow years and decades (sometime centuries) of
counter-hegemonic struggle.Apple's body of work, generally, and his
most recent two books in particular, are a reminder and guide to
the "realization of the importance of understanding the connections
amoung intersecting power relations and working toward the
long-term goals involved in building [what Williams called] 'the
long revolution'" - Hans G Despain, Nichols College Massachusetts,
Marx & Philosophy Review of Books"For scholars and researchers in
the field of comparative and international education, this current
book adds to both the depth and breadth of our ongoing conversation
with Apple’s scholarship. ... this book deserves to be both read
and taught." -Comparative Education Review
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