Title
Apple, Michael W., "Can Critical Pedagogy Interrupt Rightist Policies?" Educational Theory, 50(Spring, 2000), 229-254.*
Annotation
Challenges the market ideology that now dominates schooling and curriculum; reports on the effects of policy decisions resting on this ideology rather than on educational criteria; shows how national curriculum and national testing (in UK and in US) are reducing equality of educational opportunity; gives examples of efforts to counter current tendencies.
Broad Topical Focus
Curriculum Policies and Policy Making, Curriculum Contexts and Societal Influences
Source Discipline
Curriculum
Mode of Inquiry in the Study
Philosophical Inquiry-Speculative Essay, Critical Inquiry
Type of Study
Single Study
Narrow Topic
Ideology and School Knowledge, Curriculum Standards and Testing, Value Assumptions and Ideologies in Curriculum, Comparative Curriculum
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