In his seminal volume first published in 1982 Michael Apple articulates his theory on educational institutions and the reproduction of unequal power relations and provides a thorough examination of the ways in which race-gender-class dynamics are embedded in, and reflected through, curricular issues. This second edition contains a re-examination of earlier arguments as well as reflections on recent changes in education.

Chapter 1 Reproduction, Contestation, and Curriculum; Chapter 2 Technical Knowledge, Deviance, and the State; Chapter 3 The Other Side of the Hidden Curriculum; Chapter 4 Resistance and Contradictions in Class, Culture, and the State; Chapter 5 Curricular Form and the Logic of Technical Control; Chapter 6 Educational and Political Work;