Academic Disobedience: Engaging Michael Apple’s Nine Tasks of the Critical Scholar in an Age of Standardization

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Abstract

As the push for standardized assessment of students, schools, and teachers continues parents, teachers and communities are increasingly refusing to participate, recognizing the radical change in schools and schooling, and impact of intensified testing in children and communities. The growing tide of educational activism in response to increased standardized provokes questions about the role and conspicuous absence of the academic community. Working with and extending Michael Apple’s (2011) conception of the nine tasks in which critical scholarship/activism in education must engage, this article lays out a framework for disobedient academic work, which is aligned and mutually engaged with diverse and disparate communities in the service of creating educational change which serves children, their families, their communities, and working people.

Authors

• Ruth P. Silverberg, College of Staten Island - CUNY

• Arlo Kempf, University of California - Los Angeles