Education, markets, and an audit culture

Critical Quarterly

Volumn 47, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 11-29

  Apple, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 33847006980     PISSN: 00111562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0011-1562.2005.00611.x     Document Type: Review

References (74)

1. Michael W. Apple, Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age, 2nd edn (New York: Routledge, 2000)
2. Michael W. Apple, Educating the 'Right' Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality (New York: Routledge, 2001)
3. Michael W. Apple et al., The State and the Politics of Knowledge (New York: Routledge, 2003)
4. Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom (New York: Norton, 1998)
5. See Michael W. Apple, Cultural Politics and Education (New York: Teachers College Press, 1996)
6. Apple, Official Knowledge
7. Michael W. Apple, Ideology and Curriculum, 3rd edn (New York: Routledge, 2004)
8. Lawrence Levine, The Opening of the American Mind: Canon, Culture, and History (Boston: Beacon Press, 1996)
9. Amy Binder, Contentious Curricula (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002)
10. Linda McNeil, The Contradictions of School Reform (New York: Routledge, 2000)
11. Pauline Lipman, High Stakes Education (New York: Routledge, 2004)
12. Michael W. Apple and James A. Beane (eds), Democratic Schools (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1999)
13. Ira Shor, Empowering Education (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992)
14. Stanley Aronowitz, The Knowledge Factory (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000)
15. Apple, Educating the 'Right' Way
16. Mary Lee Smith et al., Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools (New York: Routledge, 2003)
17. Apple et al., The State and the Politics of Knowledge
18. Bob Jessop, The Future of the Capitalist State (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002)
19. Colin Leys, Market-Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest (New York: Verso, 2003), 3
20. John Chubb and Terry Moe, Politics, Markets, and American Schools (Washington: Brookings Institution, 1990)
21. See also Sheila Slaughter and Larry Leslie, Academic Capitalism (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)
22. Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades, Academic Capitalism and the New Economy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)
23. and Robert Rhoads and Carlos Alberto Torres (eds), The Political Economy of Higher Education in America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, in press) for thoughtful discussions of the effects of marketisation and competitive economic pressures on universities
24. Leys, Market-Driven Politics, 4
25. See Emily Van Dunk and Anneliese Dickman, School Choice and the Question of Accountability (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003) for how this works, and doesn't work, in plans to marketise education
26. Jürgen Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971)
27. Jessop, The Future of the Capitalist State
28. See also Michael B. Katz, The Price of Citizenship (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001)
29. David Shipler, The Working Poor (New York: Knopf, 2004)
30. Mark Olssen, 'In Defense of the Welfare State and of Publicly Provided Education', Journal of Education Policy, 11 (May 1996), 340
31. Daniel Liston and Kenneth Zeichner, Teacher Education and the Social Conditions of Schooling (New York: Routledge, 1991)
32. Dale Johnson et al., Trivializing Teacher Education (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, in press)
33. John Clarke and Janet Newman, The Managerial State (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997)
34. Of course, this is a differentiated experience. In the United States, supermarkets are less apt to even be found in inner-city neighbourhoods populated by poor persons of colour
35. Stephen Ball, Education Reform (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1994)
36. Michael W. Apple, Education and Power (New York: Routledge, 1995)
37. Lipman, High Stakes Education
38. David Hogan, 'Education and Class Formation', in Cultural and Economic Reproduction in Education, ed. Michael W. Apple (Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983)
39. For the ways in which race has been and is a crucial dynamic, see Charles Mills, The Racial Contract (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997)
40. Cameron McCarthy, Warren Crichlow, Greg Dimitriadis and Nadine Dolby (eds), Race, Identity, and Representation in Education, 2nd edn (New York: Routledge, 2005)
41. Gloria Ladson-Billings and David Gillborn (eds), The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Multicultural Education (London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2004)
42. Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, Linda Powell, and L. Mun Wong (eds), Off White, 2nd edn (New York: Routledge, 2005)
43. David Marquand, The Progressive Dilemma (London: Phoenix Books, 2000), 212-13
44. Theda Skocpol, Diminished Democracy (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003)
45. Katz, The Price of Citizenship
46. Nancy Fraser, Unruly Practices (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989)
47. Robin D. G. Kelly, 'We Are Not What We Seem: Rethinking Black Working Class Opposition in the Jim Crow South', The Journal of American History, 80 (June 1993), 75-112
48. see also Michael W. Apple and Thomas Pedroni, 'Conservative Alliance Building and African American Support for Voucher Plans', Teachers College Record (in press), however, on how oppressed people attempt to tactically take up the subject position of the consumer and rearticulate it to further their own collective interests
49. Skocpol, Diminished Democracy
50. Basil Bernstein, Pedagogy, Symbolic Control and Identity (Philadelphia: Taylor and Francis, 1996)
51. Basil Bernstein makes an important distinction between those fractions of the new middle class that work for the state and that group who works in the private sector. They may have different ideological and educational commitments. See Basil Bernstein, The Structuring of Pedagogic Discourse (New York: Routledge, 1990)
52. For more on the ways 'intermediate' classes and class fractions operate and interpret their worlds, see Erik Olin Wright (ed.), The Debate on Classes (New York: Verso, 1998)
53. Erik Olin Wright, Classes (New York: Verso, 1985)
54. Erik Olin Wright, Class Counts (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
55. and Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984)
56. Apple, Ideology and Curriculum
57. Clarke and Newman, The Managerial State
58. Bourdieu, Distinction
59. Pierre Bourdieu, Homo Academicus (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988)
60. Pierre Bourdieu, The State Nobility (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996)
61. Sally Power, Tony Edwards, Geoff Whitty and Valarie Wigfall, Education and the Middle Class (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2003)
62. Stephen Ball, Class Strategies and the Education Market (London: RoutledgeFalmer, 2003)
63. See David Gillborn and Deborah Youdell, Rationing Education (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2000)
64. McNeil, The Contradictions of School Reform
65. Apple, Cultural Politics and Education
66. Stuart Ranson, 'Public Accountability in the Age of Neo-Liberal Governance', Journal of Education Policy, 18 (September-October 2003), 470
67. Fraser, Unruly Practices
68. Mills, The Racial Contract
69. Nancy Fraser, Justice Interruptus (New York: Routledge, 1997)
70. See Raymond Williams, Resources of Hope (New York: Verso, 1989)
71. Ranson, 'Public Accountability in the Age of Neo-Liberal Governance', 476
72. An account of a continuing attempt to organize core aspects of university life and work around these concerns can be found in Apple, Official Knowledge
73. Within the field of Education, the journal Teaching Education has attempted to institutionalise this task by consistently publishing accounts of critical teaching within undergraduate classes in teacher education and in graduate classes as well
74. Apple and Beane, Democratic Schools