Ideology and Curriculum

Since 1979, Ideology and Curriculum has been a path breaking statement on the relationship between cultural and economic power in education. The new edition of this now classic text has been updated by celebrated author and activist Michael W. Apple to include a full new chapter on the book's lasting critical agenda in the context of the contemporary conservative climate. A new substantive preface introduces the fourth edition, reflecting on earlier arguments and developments from the intervening years while a concluding interview details the author's background and continuing efforts toward building a more equitable society. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its publication, this highly-anticipated new edition firmly situates Ideology and Curriculum as one of the most important education titles of our time.

Cover; Halft Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the 4th Edition; Acknowledgments to the 4th Edition; Preface to the 25th Anniversary 3rd Edition; Acknowledgments to the 3rd Edition; Preface to the 2nd Edition; Acknowledgments to the 2nd Edition; 1. On Analyzing Hegemony; Introduction; On Analyzing Hegemony; Neutrality and Justice; Educational Scholarship and the Act of ""Situating"; On the Nature of Ideology; Notes; 2. Ideology and Cultural and Economic Reproduction; Cultural and Economic Reproduction; The Achievement and Socialization Traditions

The Sociology and Economics of School KnowledgeOn the Problem of High Status Knowledge; Hegemony and Reproduction; Some Concluding Questions; Notes; 3. Economics and Control in Everyday School Life; Schooling and Cultural Capital; Meaning and Control in Curriculum History; Ideology and Curriculum in Use; Beyond a Rhetorical Humanism; Notes; 4. Curricular History and Social Control; Toward a Sense of the Present as History; Power and Culture; Urbanization and the Historical Function of Schooling; The Social Function of the Curriculum; Social Homogeneity and the Problem of Community

Social Control and the Pro…