Editing Michael Apple

{{Short description|Educational theorist (born 1942)}}
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'''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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.contemporaryarted.com/2010/10/michael-apple-lecture-adelphi.html#!/2010/10/michael-apple-lecture-adelphi.html |title=Education Scholar Michael W. Apple to Deliver The Robert and Augusta Finkelstein Memorial Lecture |publisher=Adelphi University |date= |accessdate=2013-05-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/oise/UserFiles/File/michael_apple_lecture.pdf |title=Neoliberalism, Neoconservativism and the Politics of Educational Reform |publisher=University of Toronto |date= |accessdate=2013-05-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.routledge.com/articles/michael_apple_april_2012_routledge_education_author_of_the_month/ |title=Michael Apple: April 2012 Routledge Education Author of the Month |publisher=Routledge |date= |accessdate=2013-05-21}}</ref><ref>[https://edrev.asu.edu/index.php/ER/article/view/3863 ''Michael Apple's personal account  of his growth as a scholar and activist'']</ref>

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 [[Trade union|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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.curriculosemfronteiras.org/vol1iss1articles/appleeng.pdf |title=Educational and Curricular Restructuring and the Neo-liberal and Neo-conservative Agendas: Interview with Michael Apple |publisher=Curriculo sem Fronteiras |date= |accessdate=2013-05-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.edrev.info/reviews/rev977.pdf |title=review of Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education |publisher=education review |accessdate=2013-05-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101225095448/http://edrev.info/reviews/rev977.pdf |archivedate=2010-12-25 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/bitstream/1822/7054/15/15%20Chapter%205%20Minho%20Final.pdf |title=The Long [R]evolution |publisher=JM Paraskeva |date= |accessdate=2013-05-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=62192&concordeid=311599 |title=International Struggles for Critical Democratic Education |publisher=Peter Lang |accessdate=2013-05-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331103137/http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=62192&concordeid=311599 |archivedate=2014-03-31 }}</ref>

==Bibliography==
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|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.

==See also==
*[[Critical pedagogy]]

== Further reading ==

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)

== References ==
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==External links==

* [https://edrev.asu.edu/index.php/ER/article/view/3863/1419 On being a scholar/activist: Personal history and acquired wisdom. <i>Education Review</i>]
* [http://www.perfectfit.org/CT/apple1.html Bio]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20180818091958/http://ci.education.wisc.edu/ci/people/faculty/michael-apple Apple's UW–Madison faculty webpage]
* {{YouTube|S7HVfxq4l-8|Understanding the Meaning of Educational Quality as Influenced by M. Apple-    University of Bath 24 Nov 2011}}
* [https://philosophyinpubliclife.org/2010/02/14/ideology-and-curriculum-30-years-of-a-discussion-with-michael-w-apple/ "Ideology and Curriculum: 30 Years of a Discussion" Longform interview on the radio show, Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life]
* [https://philosophyinpubliclife.org/2013/09/08/should-there-be-a-national-standard-for-education-with-michael-apple/ "Should There Be A National Standard For Education" Longform interview on the radio show, Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life]

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