For more than three decades Michael Apple has sought to uncover and articulate the connections among knowledge, teaching and power in education. In this collection, Michael brings together 13 of his key writings in one place, providing an overview not just of his own career but the larger development of the field.

Michael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Curriuclum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

CHAPTER 1

On Being a Scholar/Activist: An Introduction to Knowledge, Power, and Education

CHAPTER 2

On Analyzing Hegemony

CHAPTER 3

Commonsense Categories and the Politics of Labeling

CHAPTER 4

Seeing Education Relationally: The Stratification of Culture and People in the Sociology of School Knowledge (with Lois Weis)

CHAPTER 5

Curricular Form and the Logic of Technical Control: Commodification Returns

CHAPTER 6

Controlling the Work of Teachers

CHAPTER 7

The Other Side of the Hidden Curriculum: Culture as Lived

CHAPTER 8

The Culture and Commerce of the Textbook

CHAPTER 9

Cultural Politics and the Text

CHAPTER 10

Consuming the Other: Whiteness, Education, and Cheap French Fries

CHAPTER 11

The Politics of Official Knowledge: Does a National Curriculum Make Sense?

CHAPTER 12

Producing Inequalities: Conservative Modernization in Policy and Practice

CHAPTER 13

We Are the New Oppressed: Gender, Culture, and the Work of Home Schooling

CHAPTER 14

Global Crises, Social Justice, and Teacher Education