Michael W. Apple (born August 20, 1942) is an educational theorist specialized on education and power, cultural politics, curriculum theory and research, critical teaching, and the development of democratic schools.[1] [2] [3]
Michael W. Apple
Apple is John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education , where he taught from 1970-2018. Prior to completing his Ed.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1970, Apple taught in elementary and secondary schools in New Jersey , where he grew up, as well as served as the president of his teachers' union . For more than three decades Apple has worked with educators, unions, dissident groups, and governments throughout the world on changing educational policy and practice towards critical pedagogy.[4] [5] [6] [7]
Selected works:
Can education change society? New York: Routledge, 2013.
Education and power. reissued 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 2012.
Global crises, social justice, and education. New York: Routledge, 2010.
The Routledge international handbook of sociology of education. New York: Routledge, 2010.
The Routledge international handbook of critical education. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Democratic schools. 2nd edition. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007. With James A. Beane.
Educating the "right" way: Markets, standards, God, and inequality. 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Ideology and curriculum. 25th anniversary 3rd edition. New York: Routledge, 2004.
The state and politics of education. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Official knowledge: Democratic knowledge in a conservative age . 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Cultural politics and education. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.
The Curriculum: Problems, Politics, and Possibilities (Edited with Landon Beyer). Albany: State University of New York Press, 1988.
Teachers and Texts: A Political Economy of Class and Gender Relations in Education . New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986.
Ideology and Practice in Schooling (Edited with Lois Weis). Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983.
Culture and Economic Reproduction in Education (Edited). Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982.
Education and Power . Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982.
Ideology and Curriculum . Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979.
Schooling and the Rights of Children (Edited with Vernon F. Haubrich). Berkeley: McCutchan, 1975.
Educational Evaluation: Analysis and Responsibility (Edited with Michael J. Subkoviak and Henry S. Lufler Jr.). Berkeley: McCutchan, 1974.
Gottesman, Isaac (2016), The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race (New York: Routledge)
Weis, Lois, Dimitriadis, Greg, & McCarthy, Cameron (Eds.) (2006), Ideology, Curriculum, and the New Sociology of Education: Revisiting the Work of Michael Apple (New York: Routledge)