Many are convinced that 'liberal' solutions have failed and that answers to social problems lie in a return to conservative policies and values. As this conservative offensive grows increasingly powerful in education, public schooling itself has come under attack. Michael Apple offers a powerful analysis of current debates and a compelling indictment of rightist proposals for change. Apple presents the causes and effects of integrating schools into the corporate agenda and demonstrates who will be the winners and losers as the conservative restoration gains in strength. Far from defending the status quo, Apple argues that the unresponsive and bureaucratic nature of many school systems has actually pushed people towards the right. "Yet" he writes, "during an era when ....we face the massive dismantling of the gains that have been made in social welfare, in women's control of their bodies, in relations of race, gender and sexuality, and in whose knowledge is taught in schools, it is equally important to make certain that these gains are defended." With this dual focus, this book provides an eloquent defence of the possibility of a more democratic public education.
- ISBN13 9780335197316
- Publish Date 16 August 1996 (first published 15 June 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Open University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 160
- Language English