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ERIC Number: EJ417341
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0272
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The Politics of Official Knowledge in the United States.
Apple, Michael W.
Journal of Curriculum Studies, v22 n4 p377-83 Jul-Aug 1990
Argues that the New Right has translated economic doctrine into the language of experience and moral imperative through populist politics. Maintains that curriculum decisions are involved in political and cultural conflict as depicted by the question: Whose knowledge becomes official knowledge? Urges curriculum workers to speak for the progressive education tradition. (SLM)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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