In Educating the “Right” Way (Apple 2006) and Can Education Change Society?(Apple 2013), I spend a good deal of time on the ways in which education has been and is now a significant site of struggle for both retrogressive and progressive movements. Unfortunately, it is these more retrogressive movements who are often in the driver’s seat in educational reform many nations currently.

In Educating the “Right” Way (Apple 2006) and Can Education Change Society?(Apple 2013), I spend a good deal of time on the ways in which education has been and is now a significant site of struggle for both retrogressive and progressive movements. Unfortunately, it is these more retrogressive movements who are often in the driver’s seat in educational reform many nations currently.

This book explores the interrelationship between educational crisis, social, economic, political and cultural issues, placing it in a global context. Drawing upon scholarly studies on crisis in education, it aims to provide a comprehensive and critical approach to the major discourses in this field. Individual chapters assess thoroughly dominant education topics and offer to the reader an indispensable comparative interest. 1