Professor Michael Apple
Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Educational Policy Studies
528D Teacher Education
225 N. Mills Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Tel: (608) 263-4592
Email: apple@education.wisc.edu
Doctoral Degree:
Columbia University, Ed.D. Curriculum Studies, 1970.
Academic Areas of Interest
Professor Michael W. Apple is John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies. He teaches courses in curriculum theory and research and in the sociology of curriculum. His major interests lie in the relationship between culture and power in education.
Current Research Projects:
His current research centers on the limits and possibilities of critical educational policy and practice in a time of conservative restoration.
Recent and Representative Publications:
Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education. New York: Routledge, 2010.
The Routledge International Handbook of Sociology of Education. New York: Routledge, 2010.
The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education. New York: Routledge, 2009.
Educating the "Right" Way: Markets, Standards, God and Inequality, 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Apple, Michael W. (2005) "Education, Markets, and an Audit Culture," Critical Quarterly 47, #1- 2: 11 -29.
Apple, Michael W. and Pedroni, Thomas C. (2005) " Conservative Alliance Building and African American Support of Vouchers," Teachers College Record 107, #9: 2068-2105.
Apple, Michael W. (2004) "Creating Difference: Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Conservatism, and the Politics of Educational Reform," Educational Policy 18, # 1: 12 -44. Click here for link to article.
Ideology and Curriculum, 25th Anniversary 3rd Edition. New York: Routledge, 2004.
The State and Politics of Education. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Official Knowledge: Democratic Knowledge in a Conservative Age. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Cultural Politics and Education. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996.
Education and Power. New York: Routledge, 2nd edition, 1995.
Ideology and Curriculum. New York: Routledge, 2nd edition, 1990.
