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Lim, Leonel; Apple, Michael W. – Curriculum Inquiry, 2015
While much of the critical scholarship around elite schooling has focused on the students who attend elite institutions, their social class locations, privileged habituses and cultural capital, this paper foregrounds curricular form itself as a central mechanism in the (re)production of elites. Using Basil Bernstein's conceptual framework of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Advantaged, Social Class, Secondary School Curriculum
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Apple, Michael W. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1977
Reviews two reports that, first, describe the current state of affairs in curriculum development focusing on the relationships between federal involvement and more local educational agencies and organizations; and, secondly, attempt to articulate a set of statements that would guide national policy on curriculum research, development, and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Educational Policy, Government Publications
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Apple, Michael W.; King, Nancy R. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1977
Describes the historical process through which certain social meanings became particularly school meanings and a study of kindergarten experience that documents the potency and staying power of these particular social meanings, and raises the question of whether piecemeal reforms can succeed. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Apple, Michael W. – Curriculum Inquiry, 1980
Discusses the need to relate an understanding of the experience of schooling to the cultural and economic conditions of society. The work of Paul Willis is used to exemplify the processes by which a dominant class establishes ideological hegemony and legitimates and maintains an existing social order. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Curriculum Evaluation, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Environment