Michael Apple
Michael W. Apple (born August 20, 1942) is an educational theorist specialized on education and power, cultural politics, curriculum theory and research, critical teaching, and the development of democratic schools. Apple is John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education, where he taught from 1970-2018. Prior to completing his Ed.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University in 1970, Apple taught in elementary and secondary schools in New Jersey, where he grew up, as well as served as the president of his teachers' union. For more than three decades Apple has worked with educators, unions, dissident groups, and governments throughout the world on changing educational policy and practice towards critical pedagogy. Bibliography Selected works: Can education change society? New York: Routledge, 2013. Education and power. reissued 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 2012. 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. Democratic schools. 2nd edition. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007. With James A. Beane. Educating the "right" way: Markets, standards, God, and inequality. 2nd edition. New York: