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1. Critical Curriculum Studies

   Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing

   By Wayne Au

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Critical Curriculum Studies offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to students’ understanding of the world around them. Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory, critical educational studies, and feminist standpoint theory with practical examples of teaching for social...

   Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
2. The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education

   Edited by Michael W. Apple, Wayne Au, Luis Armando Gandin

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks of Education

   The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education is the first authoritative reference work to provide an international analysis of the relationship between power, knowledge, education, and schooling. Rather than focusing solely on questions of how we teach efficiently and effectively,...

   Published January 18th 2011 by Routledge
3. Unequal By Design

   High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality

   By Wayne Au

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Unequal By Design critically examines high-stakes standardized testing in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected by such testing. This thoughtful analysis traces standardized testing’s origins in the Eugenics and Social Efficiency...

   Published August 26th 2008 by Routledge