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  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Michael W. Apple is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily concentrates within the social sciences, with a notable focus on education. Over their career, they have contributed to 40 publications in social sciences, with 22 specifically addressing education. Other related subfields of study include political science and international relations, sociology and political science, demography, and information systems.

Their main research topics cover a broad scope related to global and critical education. These include global educational policies and reforms, global education and multiculturalism, diverse education studies and reforms, global educational reforms and inequalities, critical and liberation pedagogy, critical race theory in education, and educator training and historical pedagogy.

Michael W. Apple has published papers in various academic venues, with frequent publications in Education Review and Educational Policy, each hosting six of their works. Other notable venues include Educational Philosophy and Theory, University of Crete, and the Journal of Educational Administration & History.

Some recent papers by the researcher are:

  • Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19, 2020, Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • Reflections on contemporary challenges and possibilities for democracy and education, 2022, Journal of Educational Administration & History
  • Homeschooling, democracy, and regulation: An essay review of Homeschooling: The history and philosophy of a controversial practice, 2020, Education Review
  • Reconstructing choice: parental choice of internationally-oriented "public" high schools in China, 2023, Critical Studies in Education
  • On the Role of Teacher Unions in Social Justice, 2021, Educational Policy

The researcher frequently collaborates with others, with notable coauthors including Liz Jackson, Gert Biesta, Michael A. Peters, Fazal Rizvi, and Gary McCulloch.

In addition to articles, Michael W. Apple has authored books, including "Schools Under Surveillance," published by Rutgers University Press in 2020.

Recognition for their contributions includes the award of Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2011.

Best Publications

  • Ideology and Curriculum

    Michael W. Apple

  • Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age

    Michael W. Apple

  • Educating the Right Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality

    Michael W. Apple

  • Teachers and Texts: A Political Economy of Class and Gender Relations in Education

    Michael W. Apple

  • Cultural politics and education

    Michael W. Apple

  • Education and power

    Michael W. Apple

  • The Politics of the Textbook

    Michael W. Apple;Linda K. Christian-Smith

  • Maestros y textos: una economía política de las relaciones de clase y de sexo en educación

    Michael W. Apple;Marco Aurelio Galmarini

  • Creating Difference: Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Conservatism and the Politics of Educational Reform

    Michael W. Apple

  • Comparing Neo-liberal Projects and Inequality in Education

    Michael W. Apple

  • The Text and Cultural Politics

    Michael W. Apple

  • The Politics of Official Knowledge: Does a National Curriculum Make Sense?

    Michael W. Apple

  • The State and the Politics of Knowledge

    Michael W. Apple

  • Can Education Change Society

    Michael W. Apple

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education

    Michael W. Apple;Wayne Au;Luis Armando Gandin

  • Education, markets, and an audit culture

    Michael W. Apple

  • The Hidden Curriculum and the Nature of Conflict.

    Michael W. Apple

  • Teoría crítica y educación

    Michael W. Apple

  • The Routledge international handbook of the sociology of education

    Michael W. Apple;Stephen J. Ball;Luis Armando Gandin

  • Educating the "Right" Way

    Michael Apple

  • Global Education Inc: new policy networks and the neo-liberal imaginary

    Crain Soudien;Michael W. Apple;Sheila Slaughter

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoff Whitty
Geoff Whitty University of Newcastle Australia
Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters University of Waikato
F. Michael Connelly
F. Michael Connelly University of Toronto
Bill Cope
Bill Cope University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sheila Slaughter
Sheila Slaughter University of Georgia
Ronald Barnett
Ronald Barnett University College London
Susan L. Robertson
Susan L. Robertson University of Cambridge
Fazal Rizvi
Fazal Rizvi University of Melbourne
Mary Kalantzis
Mary Kalantzis University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Helen Gunter
Helen Gunter University of Manchester

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