Education and the Politics of Interruption
Does the Right Always Win?
Michael W Apple editor Luis Armando Gandin editor Iana Gomes De Lima editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:22nd Dec '25
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- Hardback£155.00(9781032949598)
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.
"The strength of Education and the Politics of Interruption lies in its ability to show a diversity of ways in which ideological struggles occur surrounding what education should look like. By taking a global perspective and drawing on the history of education-related activism and reforms in different countries, readers can see more clearly how these political struggles over education recur across time and place... The book shows the necessity of continued organizing, mobilization, and resistance to bring about progressive change."
Book Review by Hannah Castner, Harvard Educational Review, April 2026, 96 (1) p. 151-156.
Read the full book review: https://doi.org/10.17763/B7G5T9N3L
"Presenting a myriad of examples, the text challenges assumptions of wins and losses, the distribution of power, and what is possible in movements of the people, showing how right-wing influences happen in similar and distinct ways across countries. These examples also show how resistance can be effective, when it is mobilized in thoughtful and strategic ways."
Book review, Journal of Education Policy
"The book represents a timely and significant contribution to critical education policy, comparative education, and the sociology of education. It will be of particular interest to scholars and graduate students seeking to understand the complex interplay between education and political ideology, as well as to practitioners and policy makers concerned with sustaining democratic and socially just educational practices in increasingly polarised contexts. By foregrounding the possibility of interruption, the volume offers both an analytical framework and a cautiously optimistic account of the transformative potential of collective action in education."
Book review, Educational Review
ISBN: 9781032949574
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 370g
194 pages