Apple The Struggle for Democracy in Education

Lessons from Social Realities
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-76179-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 174 Seiten

The Struggle for Democracy in Education extends the insightful arguments Michael Apple provided in Can Education Change Society? It provides detailed examinations 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 examinations 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Apple, Michael W.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

CHAPTER ONE

The Struggle for Democracy in Education

Michael W. Apple

CHAPTER TWO

The Contradictions of a Critically Democratic School

Assaf Meshulam and Michael W. Apple

CHAPTER THREE

Struggling for the Local: Money, Power, and the Possibilities of Victories in the Politics of Education

Eleni Schirmer and Michael W. Apple

CHAPTER FOUR

How "Democracy" Can Lead to Inequality: Class Relations and the Realities of Educational Reform

Shuning Liu and Michael W. Apple

CHAPTER FIVE

Can Critical Democracy Last? Porto Alegre and the Struggle for "Thick" Democracy in Education

Luis Armando Gandin and Michael W. Apple

CHAPTER SIX

The Struggle Continues: Lessons Learned and What Can Be Done

Michael W. Apple

About the Authors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michael W. Apple is John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has written extensively on the relationship between culture and power in education and on the limits and possibilities of a socially transformative education. He has been named one of the 50 most significant writers in education in the twentieth century.