1st Edition

The Subaltern Speak Curriculum, Power, and Educational Struggles

Edited By Michael Apple, Kristen L. Buras Copyright 2006
    302 Pages
    by Routledge

    302 Pages
    by Routledge

    The question of whose perspective, experience and history is privileged in educational institutions has shaped curriculum debates for decades. In this insightful collection, Michael W. Apple and Kristen L. Buras interrogate the notion that some knowledge is worth more than others. The Subaltern Speak combines an analysis of the ways in which various forms of power now operate, with a specific focus on spaces in which subaltern groups act to reassert their own perceived identities, cultures and histories.

    Introduction: The Subaltern Speak Curriculum, Kristen L. Buras, Michael W. Apple; Part 1 The Subaltern Speak; Chapter 1 Tracing the Core Knowledge Movement, Kristen L. Buras; Chapter 2 “We Are the New Oppressed”, Michael W. Apple; Chapter 3 Can the Subaltern Act?, Thomas C. Pedroni; Part 2 The Subaltern Speak; Chapter 4 “In My History Classes They Always Turn Things Around, the Opposite Way”, Glenabah Martinez; Chapter 5 Rethinking Grassroots Activism, Dolores Delgado Bernal; Chapter 6 Detraction, Fear, and Assimilation, Kevin K. Kumashiro; Part 3 The Subaltern Speak; Chapter 7 Subaltern in Paradise, Stanley Aronowitz; Chapter 8 Struggling for Recognition, Jyh-Jia Chen; Chapter 9 Creating Real Alternatives to Neoliberal Policies in Education, LuÍS Armando Gandin; Chapter 10 Toward a Subaltern Cosmopolitan Multiculturalism, Kristen L. Buras, Paulino Motter; Chapter 11 Speaking Back to Official Knowledge, Michael W. Apple, Kristen L. Buras;

    Biography

    Michael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of several best selling Routledge books, including Ideology and Curriculum, Education and Power, and Educating the "Right" Way. Kristen L. Buras is a Wisconsin-Spencer Research Fellow University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Curriculum and Instruction.