Michael Apple
Large Small (Markets, Standards, and Inequality)

 Michael W Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A former elementary and secondary school teacher and past-president of a teachers union, he has worked with educational systems, governments, universities, and activist and dissident groups throughout the world to democratize educational research, policy, and practice. Professor Apple has written extensively on the politics of educational reform and on the relationship between culture and power. Although his many award-winning books and articles are too numerous to mention, among them are Ideology and Curriculum, Education and Power, Teachers and Texts, Official Knowledge, Democratic Schools, Cultural Politics and Education, and Power, Meaning, and Identity.  His two most recent books are Educating the "Right" Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality and the just published new book, The State and the Politics of Knowledge.  His books and articles have been translated into Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Italian, Chinese, German, Korean, and many other languages. His latest work deals with the dangers of neo-liberal and neo-conservative policies in education and the larger society and with creating alternatives to these policies and practices.  Professor Apple has been selected as one of the fifty most important educational scholars in the 20th Century.  His book Ideology and Curriculum, just published in  a 25th Anniversary 3rd Edition, was also selected as one of the twenty most significant books on education in the 20th Century. Professor Apple has been Vice-President of the American Educational Research Association.  He is also the editor of an international series of books published by Routledge, Critical Social Thought. He has recently been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Educational Research Association. He also was awarded the UCLA Medal for outstanding academic achievements in research in education. Professor Apple has worked on educational reform, lectured, and taught in a considerable number of countries throughout the world, where his material has been extremely influential in the development of more democratic educational policies and practices.