This ground-breaking book analyzes contemporary education  discourse in the light of curriculum politics and popular culture,  using sources ranging from academic scholarship to popular magazines,  music video, film and television game shows. Mathematics is used as an  "extreme case,"since it is a discipline so easily accepted as  separable from politics, ethics or the social construction of  knowledge. Appelbaum’s juxtaposition of popular culture, public debate  and professional practice enables an examination of the production and  mediation of "common sense" distinctions between school mathematics  and the world outside of schools. Terrain ordinarily displaced or  excluded by traditional education literature becomes the pendulum for  a new conversation which merges research and practice while discarding  pre-conceived categories of understanding.    The book also serves as an entertaining introduction to emerging theories in cultural studies, progressively illustrating the uses of discourse analysis for comprehending ideology, the implications of power/knowledge links, professional practice as a technology of power, and curriculum as at once commodities and cultural resources.In this way, Appelbaum effectively reveals a direction for teachers, students and researchers to cooperatively form a community attentive to the politics of curriculum and popular culture.

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