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Official Knowledge: Democratic Education in a Conservative Age

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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. Education, Power, and Personal Biography: An Interview as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract
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.

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