Education Policy & Politics

In this groundbreaking work, Apple pushes educators toward a more substantial understanding of what schools do and what we can do to challenge the relations of dominance and subordination in the larger society...

Detailed accounts are given of curriculum change in a wide variety of settings: American and English school systems, a college of education, an art curriculum project, Scottish classrooms. Analytic perspectives are employed that help to clarify the underlying forces at work. The contributors probe t..

Assessment is a key area of interest and debate in education. Its increased use by governments as a powerful means of influencing educational practice are now features of the educational scene worldwide. This volume was the first major international review of such developments and it explores the im..

Assessment is a key area of interest and debate in education. Its increased use by governments as a powerful means of influencing educational practice are now features of the educational scene worldwide. This volume was the first major international review of such developments and it explores the im..

Higher education is in a current state of flux and uncertainty, with profound changes being shaped largely by the imperatives of global neoliberalism. Changing Pedagogical Spaces in Higher Education forms a unique addition to the literature and includes significant practical pointers in developing p..

This volume proffers a unique perspective on the transformation of education in the 21st century, by bringing together leading researchers in education, sociology and geography to address directly questions of space in relation to education and learning...

In Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space, Kristen Buras maps federal, state, and local policy networks to show how the New Orleans' education landscape has been reshaped by a strategic venture to privatize public education...

In Charter Schools, Race, and Urban Space, Kristen Buras maps federal, state, and local policy networks to show how the New Orleans' education landscape has been reshaped by a strategic venture to privatize public education...

Richly informative and accessibly written, Chicano School Failure and Success, Third Edition includes completely revised and updated chapters that incorporate recent scholarship and research on the current realities of the Chicano school experience...

Richly informative and accessibly written, Chicano School Failure and Success, Third Edition includes completely revised and updated chapters that incorporate recent scholarship and research on the current realities of the Chicano school experience...

This volume is a critical study of one of today’s most controversial topics in educational theory, setting the many arguments in perspective and clarifying the issues that arise when attention is focused on the learner. The author examines the problems of individual education, the distinctive demand..

This volume is a critical study of one of today’s most controversial topics in educational theory, setting the many arguments in perspective and clarifying the issues that arise when attention is focused on the learner. The author examines the problems of individual education, the distinctive demand..