Professor Michael Apple John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Education Policy Studies University of Wisconsin Madison, USA

Brief Biography

Michael W. Apple is John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A former elementary and secondary school teacher and past president of a teachers union, he has worked with governments, dissident groups, unions, and educators in many countries to democratize educational research, policy, and practice. He has written extensively on the relationship between education and power.

Among his many books are :
* Ideology and Curriculum (1979; second edition 1990)
* Education and Power (1985; second edition 1995)
* Teachers and Texts (1988)
* Official Knowledge (1993)
* Democratic Schools (1995)
* Cultural Politics and Education (1996)

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