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Michael W. Apple

Michael W. Apple. Educational Theorist By: Eric Ruppert. Image from: http ://cockingasnook.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/michael-apple.jpeg. BACKGROUND. Completed his masters and doctoral degrees from Columbia University Received the UCLA Medal for academic excellence

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Michael W. Apple

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  1. Michael W. Apple Educational Theorist By: Eric Ruppert Image from: http://cockingasnook.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/michael-apple.jpeg

  2. BACKGROUND • Completed his masters and doctoral degrees from Columbia University • Received the UCLA Medal for academic excellence • Received numerous honorary doctoral degrees from worldwide universities • Highly distinguished and recognized educational theorist and author of countless books. • Currently hold professorial conferences at • Beijing Normal University • East China Normal University, China • Teaches at • University of Wisconsin • John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies • Institution of Education, University of London • World Scholar and Professor of Educational Policy Studies

  3. Professional Interest Apple is passionate about working with educators, unions, and governments worldwide educating and leading coalitions on democratizing educational policy and practice. Apple has spent the majority of his professional career exploiting a term he likes to call the conservative modernization movement. This movement sets out to redefine what education is for and how it should behave in the future. He has strong concerns for the direction it is heading, and believes that it should be redirected if not eliminated. The following slides focus on his research and his concerns. Image from: http://www.routledge.com/authorArc/april2009.asp

  4. Conservative Modernization Movement Apple’s Concern and Who’s to Blame for it! • The conservative modernization movement is centered around 4 core groups. • Neo-Liberals • Neo-Conservatives • Authoritarian Populist • “Experts for Hire”

  5. Conservative Modernization Movement • Neo-Liberals: • Economic modernizers that believe schooling and paid work should be intertwined. • They believe schools should be connected to the marketplace. • Educational policy should be centered around the economy.

  6. Conservative Modernization Movement • Neo-Conservatives: • Similar beliefs as the Neo-Liberals, but main focus is on “Cultural Restoration.” • These members also believe in a romanticized version of education, that stems in deep Westernized tradition. • Belief in a core controlled educational system that base their finding on controlled curriculum and neutralized testing.

  7. Conservative Modernization Movement • Authoritarian Populist: • Members are mainly Christian Fundamentalist that wish to restore biblical tradition as the backbone of knowledge in school policy and curriculum. • Authoritarian Populists primary concerns are the relationships between school, the body and sexuality. • Believe education should be teacher driven • Apple believes that these members are responsible for “stealth campaigns” in which members will run for school offices under fiscal pedestals. Once elected their religious agenda emerges.

  8. Conservative Modernization Movement • “Experts for Hire”: • Members may not necessarily agree with the other groups, and do not see themselves as having a political agenda. • Most members are professional, managerial citizens within the community. • States will hire them based on the defined expertise in the fields of cost-benefit analysis, management, technicality and efficiency. • This groups main focus is on managerialism rather than educational restoration.

  9. Apple’s Suggestions for the Educational Future. • Apple believes that there needs to be “obvious” redirection. This can only be achieved by new coalitions emerging and combating the falsities and dangers that will occur if the movement continues.

  10. Professional WorksApple sheds additional light on his concerns with the future of education, and how it can be healed with the following reads: Educating the “Right” Way A dynamic read that takes a more in depth look at “conservative restoration,” and what educators can do to build alternative coalitions. The State and the Politics of Knowledge Apple explores the ways in which global educational dominance can be exploited and the rebuilding of testing, standards and markets can be accomplished.

  11. References • From Theory to Data and Back Again: Michael W. Apple Argues for a New Role for Critical Theorists: A Reviewed Essay/Educating the "Right" Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality/The State and the Politics of Knowledge (Book). (1970) Teachers College Record, 106(1). Retrieved January 30, 2010 • Flinders, David J., & Thornton, Stephen J. (Eds.). (2009). The Curriculum Studies Reader. New York, NY: Routledge. • Shaughnessy, Michael F., Peca, Kathy, & Siegal, Janna. (2001). Educational and Curricular Restructuring and the Neo-liberal and Neo-conservative Agendas: Interview with Michael Apple.CurrículosemFronteiras, v.1, (n.1), pp. i-xxvi. http://www.curriculosemfronteiras.org/vol1iss1articles/appleeng.pdf

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