Michael Apple Education And Power Summary
Michael Apple argued in his Education and Power “The educational system is not an instrument of the capitalist class. It is the product of conflict between the dominant and the dominated. The struggle in the production sector, for example, affects schools, just as it conditions all state apparatuses. Furthermore because the State, including the educational system, is itself the political arena, schools are part of social conflict over the production of knowledge, ideology, and employment, a place where social movements try to meet their needs and business attempts to reproduce its hegemony." Apple points is moving away from simple notions of