Official knowledge: democratic education in a conservative age

Introduction: The Politics of Official Knowledge

The Politics of Common Sense: Why the Right Is Winning

Cultural Politics and the Text

Regulating Official Knowledge

Creating the Captive Audience: Channel One and the Political Economy of the Text

Whose Curriculum Is This Anyway? (with Susan Jungck)

"Hey Man, I'm Good": The Art and Politics of Creating New Knowledge in Schools

The Politics of Pedagogy and the Building of Community

Managerialism, Labor, and Emerging Movements in the Global University

A Reason for Hope? Changing Minds and the Fate of American Schools.

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Introduction: The politics of official knowledge

2. The politics of common-sense: Why the right is winning

3. Cultural politics and the text

4. Regulating official knowledge

5. Creating the captive audience: Channel one and the political economy of the text

6. Whose curriculum is this anyway? (with Susan Jungck)

7. "Hey man, I'm good": The art and politics of creating new knowledge in schools

8. The politics of pedagogy and the building of community

Appendix: Education, power, and personal biography: An interview

Notes

Bibliography

Index.