Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-220) and index.
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Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Appendix: Education, power, and personal biography: An interview -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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A powerful examination of the rightist resurgence in education and the challenges it presents to concerned educators, Official Knowledge analyzes the effects of conservative beliefs and strategies on educational policy and practice. Apple looks specifically at the conservative agenda's incursion into education through the curriculum, textbook adoption policies and the efforts of the private and business sectors to centralize its interests within schools. At the same time, however, he points out areas of hope for the future, showing how students and teachers have continued the struggle and are now successfully engaged in building more democratic education policies and practices. Finally, Apple writes in personal terms about his own teaching techniques and work with students which challenge some of the ideological and educational policies and practices of the Right.