
Education and the Politics of Interruption
Does the Right Always Win?
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 22. December 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
202 pages
978-1-032-94957-4 (ISBN)
Description
Education has become a crucial site of struggle in multiple nations of the world. Education and the Politics of Interruption examines how governments, schools, educators, communities, and parents have become central figures in the conflicts between authoritarian coalitions and progressive educational and social movements. In recent years, educators around the world have experienced increasingly influential and powerful attempts by the right to ban books from classrooms and libraries, silence diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, control what and whose knowledge is taught in classrooms, and push policies that defund public schools, increase the pressure for marketization, and assert "parental choice." This book describes ongoing alliances and organizing efforts across the globe that work to build and defend critically democratic educational policies and practices amid the growing rightist ideological and legislative influences. It provides substantive critical analyses of conservative and authoritarian agendas in education, exposes the social and educational costs of these agendas, and documents the ongoing struggles against them. In the process, it broadens our understanding of how people can defend and expand critically democratic schooling and cooperate across differing ideological agendas. This volume will be important reading for critical educators and for scholars and students of Critical Education, Curriculum Studies, Education Politics and Policy, Social Justice, Sociology of Education, and Comparative Education.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung, 1 s/w Zeichnung
1 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
304 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-94957-4 (9781032949574)
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Additional editions

Michael W. Apple | Iana Gomes De Lima | Luis Armando Gandin
Education and the Politics of Interruption
Does the Right Always Win?
E-Book
12/2025
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download

Michael W. Apple | Iana Gomes De Lima | Luis Armando Gandin
Education and the Politics of Interruption
Does the Right Always Win?
Book
approx. 12/2025
1st Edition
Routledge
€207.40
Not yet published

Michael W. Apple | Iana Gomes De Lima | Luis Armando Gandin
Education and the Politics of Interruption
Does the Right Always Win?
E-Book
12/2025
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
Michael W. Apple is the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. He is also Distinguished Professorial Fellow at the University of Manchester, UK.
Iana Gomes De Lima is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Luis Armando Gandin is Professor of Sociology of Education at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Iana Gomes De Lima is Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Luis Armando Gandin is Professor of Sociology of Education at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Editor
University of Wisconsin, USA
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Content
Introduction: Education and the Politics of Interruption: Does the Right Always Win? 1. United States: Can We Win? Social Mobilizations and the Politics of Official Knowledge 2. England: Learning to Fear: How Islamophobia is Manufactured, Made Educational, and Resisted in England 3. Poland: The Empire Strikes Back: A Neoconservative Revolution in Polish Schools and the Struggles Against It 4. Australia: Teacher Union Resistance to the Impacts of Marketised and Neo-Liberal Restructurings: The More than Thanks campaign by the New South Wales Teachers' Federation 5. Brazil: Brazil's Black Movement and Policies for Racial Equality in an Antidemocratic Period 6. Chile: Standardization Policies and the Teacher Career Law in Chile and its Resistances: When the Right Doesn?t Always Win, Even if it Wins 7. Japan: Ecological Interventions in the Postwar Politics of Japanese Education: Reassessing the Japanese Language and Moral Education Debates 8. India: Reforming the 'Right' Way: Market, Hypernationalism, and Curriculum Vigilantism in Indian Higher Education 9. Afterword: Understanding and Interrupting the Right: What Have We Learned?