The State and the Politics of Knowledge extends the insightful arguments Michael Apple provided in Educating the "Right" Way in new and truly international directions. Arguing that schooling is, by definition, political, Apple and his co-authors move beyond a critical analysis to describe numerous ways of interrupting dominance and creating truly democratic and realistic alternatives to the ways markets, standards, testing, and a limited vision of religion are now being pressed into schools.

Michael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has recently been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Educational Research Association and his book, Ideologyand Curriculum (Routledge 1990), was voted one of the top twenty books on education in the twentieth century.

1. The State and the Politics of Knowledge, Michael W. Apple 2. Becoming Right: Education and the Formation of Conservative Movements, Michael W. Apple and Anita Oliver 3. Reading Polynesian Barbie: Iterations of Race, Nation, and State, Hannah Tavares 4. Rethinking the Education/State Formation Connection: The State, Cultural Struggles, and Changing the School, Ting-Hong Wong and Michael W. Apple 5. What Happened to Social Democratic Progressivism in Scandanavia?: Restructuring Education in Sweden and Norway in the 1990s, Petter Aasen 6. Schooling, Work, and Subjectivity, Misook Kim Cho and Michael W. Apple 7. Democracy, Technology, and Curriculum, Lessons from the Critical Practices of Korean Teachers, Youl-Kwan Sung and Michael W. Apple 8. Educating the State, Democratizing Knowledge: The Citizen School Project in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Luis Armando Gandin and Michael W. Apple 9. Afterword, Michael W. Apple