UW-Madison’s Michael Apple has recently co-authored and released two new books.
“Re-imagining Education for Democracy,” with Stuart Riddle, and “Critical Studies of Education in Asia: Knowledge, power, and the Politics of Curriculum Reforms,” with Leonel Lim, were both published by Routledge. Both works examine the limits and possibilities of creating more critically democratic educational policies and practices, and current national and international contexts.
Apple is the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction, and Educational Policy Studies.
“Critical Studies of Education in Asia” features analyses that take seriously the complex postcolonial, historical, and cultural consciousnesses felt across societies in Asia, and explore their impact on the changing terrain of knowledge, subjectivities, and power relations constructed both within schools and across the public sphere. Originally published as a special issue of Curriculum Inquiry, this book offers critical insights for academic researchers and policy-makers seeking to understand the tensions and possibilities of educational change in the region.
Framed within two complementary sections, “Re-imagining Education for Democracy” addresses key policy, political, and philosophical concerns of contemporary educational contexts, while providing empirical case studies and other local-global narratives of resisting and reframing dominant discourses in education. This book takes up the project of resisting the de-democratization of education and the growing levels of social and educational inequality. Apple and Riddle explore questions surrounding how change can be articulated, imagined, and sustainably created.