Professor Michael Apple will deliver a public lecture at the University of Strathclyde on June 16th titled "Are current educational reforms really democratic?". In the lecture, Professor Apple will discuss how educational reforms promoted as enhancing democracy in many nations have instead increased inequality and shifted understandings of democracy away from fully participatory forms. Registration for the lecture is required by June 3rd.

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Public Lecture
“Are current educational reforms really democratic?”
delivered by
Professor Michael Apple
John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
and Educational Policy Studies
at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Thursday 16 June at 6.00pm
Technology and Innovation Centre (TIC)
99 George Street, Glasgow G1 1RD
In many nations throughout the world, reforms in education are being pushed forward that
promise to 'enhance democracy'. These reforms have had significant effects on what
counts as a good school, a good student, a good teacher, and good teacher education. Yet,
in all too many cases they also have produced more not less inequality. In the process, they
have shifted our understanding of the very nature of democracy from 'thick' fully
participatory forms to 'thin' versions that do not necessarily result in more robust policies
for social justice.
Please register http://tinyurl.com/MichaelApple or scan
the QR Code on the right to access the website.
by Friday 3 June 2016
Registration and refreshments from 5.30pm
Lecture starts 6pm. Drinks reception 7.00-7.30pm
Enquiries to corporate-events@strath.ac.uk or
0141 548 2245