Asks Patrick Ainley in a review of Michael Apple’s Can Education Change Society? (Routledge 2013, 9780415875332, pp.188, £23.99) that revisits some of the previous discussion in PSEs 71 & 72 over education and social control
Michael Apple disarmingly answers the perennial question of his title by saying, ‘It depends’. What it depends on he develops over the next 187 pages ‘from the position of multiple oppressed groups’, rather than in terms of the orthodoxy that education can change society ‘only if it overtly challenges class and capitalism’ (12)…………
Education, Economy and Society 