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Apple, Michael W.; Biesta, Gert; Bright, David; Giroux, Henry A.; Heffernan, Amanda; McLaren, Peter; Riddle, Stewart; Yeatman, Anna – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2022
This paper is one of two which bring together leading educational researchers to consider some of the key challenges facing democracy and education during the twenty-first century, including rising social and economic inequality, political instability, and the existential threats of global pandemics and climate change. In this paper, key…
Descriptors: Barriers, Democratic Values, Equal Education, Public Education
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Apple, Michael W. – Educational Policy, 2019
In education, the areas of critical policy studies, critical cultural studies, and critical curriculum studies all owe a good deal to a number of people. Among them are Paulo Freire, Raymond Williams, Pierre Bourdieu, Basil Bernstein, and Antonio Gramsci. Yet no such listing would be complete without the inclusion of Stuart Hall. The two books I…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Philosophy, Books, Educational Theories
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Apple, Michael W. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2015
Stuart Hall had a significant impact on critical analyses of rightist mobilizations in education. This is very visible in my own work, for example, in such volumes as "Official Knowledge" (2014) and "Educating the 'Right' Way" (2006). After describing an important series of lectures that Stuart Hall gave at the Havens Center…
Descriptors: Social Change, Activism, Politics of Education, Social Problems
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Apple, Michael W. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
When the U.S. government released its 2007 census figures in January 2010, it reported that 12% of the U.S. population--more than 38 million people--were foreign born. First-generation people were now one out of every eight persons in the nation, with 80% coming from Latin America and Asia. This near-record transformation, one in which diasporic…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Census Figures, Teacher Education, Global Approach
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Collin, Ross; Apple, Michael W. – Educational Policy, 2010
In the elections of 2006 and 2008, progressive and liberal groups in the United States broke through key bulwarks of the Right to capture some of the highest hills on the political landscape. Although progressives and liberals now control key positions, the Right still holds wide swaths of terrain and still exercises considerable power in shaping…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Change, Political Attitudes, Progressive Education
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Weaver-Hightower, Marcus B.; Apple, Michael W. – Educational Policy, 2008
The authors maintain that higher education has tamely responded to pillory by political conservatives. This essay advocates for Michael Berube's defense of liberalism in higher education, "What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education." The writers also counter what they view as conservative attacks on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Political Attitudes, Liberal Arts, Educational Policy