%0 Journal Article
%T On Doing Critical Policy Analysis
%A Michael W. Apple
%J Educational Policy
%@ 1552-3896
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0895904818807307
%X In my comments on this fine collection of critical policy analyses, I want to do a number of things. I shall point to the general conceptual and social orientation and commitments that provide the foundation for such research. I will then describe a number of contributions that these papers make. And finally, I shall suggest a number of areas where additional critical investigations could make a significant contribution to our understanding. I hope that I will be forgiven if, at times, I refer to my own work. But many of the arguments I will make in this essay require much more detailed treatments, ones in which I have engaged elsewhere. Thus, these references to my own lengthier analyses may serve as a shorthand pointer to the larger discussions
%K politics of education
%K social movements
%K social justice
%K religion
%K educational reform
%K educational policy
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0895904818807307