Six years ago Michael W. Apple, the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, celebrated the 40th anniversary of his path breaking book Ideology and Curriculum (originally published in 1979), which established a relationship between education and economic and cultural power. Taylor and Frances brought out the 4th edition of the classic.

I read the book when I was working as a cashier in a gas station at the university town of Davis, California on a graveyard shift in the summer of 1990. After 2 am, there were hardly any customers that stopped to buy booze, cigarettes, chewing gum, snacks, condoms or gas! So,I had plenty of time to devour it. Most nights were uneventful except one late evening when there was a drive-by shooting 100-yards away from the pumps. I was instantly hooked on Apple's sociological study of education. He was a huge name in the study of politics and sociology of curriculum.

At the time, I was a student at the University of California at Davis and enrolled in an MA program in education, reading philosophy, psychology, linguistics, history and so on. .Subsequently, I enquired with him about the possibility of doing a PhD under his mentorship.

The rest is history as they say.

From the winter semester of 1992 till spring 1998, I spent 6 years under his academic supervision. We have been comrades and friends for the last 30+ years.

A month ago, I paid my old teacher - now 82 - a visit in his down-sized flat a short walk on Mill Street from the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. We talked for a total of 6 hours over two consecutive days. He was generous with his time, and graciously allowed me to record an interview with him on his life's work. He is one of the world's leading sociologists of education who supervised over 100 doctoral students from around the world of whom only 1 or 2 did not complete their degrees, and has published 32 books in his half-century of influential academic career in the field.

The result is this 3-part podcast.

We touched on a wide variety of topics which were dear and near to both of us including the work of the renowned Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, the Friday Seminar he ran as a critical reading group at the home of the top-ranked Curriculum and Instruction Department, his own activism as a former teacher, a US military veteran and education, American imperialism and authoritarian regimes in places where he had held professorships including China. Apple came from a working class family of Eastern European Jewish migrants in Patterson, New Jersey, and considered himself proudly a "red diaper baby". He has been fuming about the Zionists, arrogating to themselves as "the voice of all Jews". Naturally, he shared his thoughts on Israel's ongoing genocide in Palestine.

Dr. Maung Zarni

Six years ago Michael W. Apple, the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, celebrated the 40th anniversary of his path breaking book Ideology and Curriculum (originally published in 1979), which established a relationship between education and economic and cultural power. Taylor and Frances brought out the 4th edition of the classic.

I read the book when I was working as a cashier in a gas station at the university town of Davis, California on a graveyard shift in the summer of 1990. After 2 am, there were hardly any customers that stopped to buy booze, cigarettes, chewing gum, snacks, condoms or gas! So,I had plenty of time to devour it. Most nights were uneventful except one late evening when there was a drive-by shooting 100-yards away from the pumps. I was instantly hooked on Apple's sociological study of education. He was a huge name in the study of politics and sociology of curriculum.

At the time, I was a student at the University of California at Davis and enrolled in an MA program in education, reading philosophy, psychology, linguistics, history and so on. .Subsequently, I enquired with him about the possibility of doing a PhD under his mentorship.

The rest is history as they say.

From the winter semester of 1992 till spring 1998, I spent 6 years under his academic supervision. We have been comrades and friends for the last 30+ years.

A month ago, I paid my old teacher - now 82 - a visit in his down-sized flat a short walk on Mill Street from the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. We talked for a total of 6 hours over two consecutive days. He was generous with his time, and graciously allowed me to record an interview with him on his life's work. He is one of the world's leading sociologists of education who supervised over 100 doctoral students from around the world of whom only 1 or 2 did not complete their degrees, and has published 32 books in his half-century of influential academic career in the field.

The result is this 3-part podcast.

We touched on a wide variety of topics which were dear and near to both of us including the work of the renowned Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, the Friday Seminar he ran as a critical reading group at the home of the top-ranked Curriculum and Instruction Department, his own activism as a former teacher, a US military veteran and education, American imperialism and authoritarian regimes in places where he had held professorships including China. Apple came from a working class family of Eastern European Jewish migrants in Patterson, New Jersey, and considered himself proudly a "red diaper baby". He has been fuming about the Zionists, arrogating to themselves as "the voice of all Jews". Naturally, he shared his thoughts on Israel's ongoing genocide in Palestine.

Dr. Maung Zarni

Six years ago Michael W. Apple, the John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, celebrated the 40th anniversary of his path breaking book Ideology and Curriculum (originally published in 1979), which established a relationship between education and economic and cultural power. Taylor and Frances brought out the 4th edition of the classic.

I read the book when I was working as a cashier in a gas station at the university town of Davis, California on a graveyard shift in the summer of 1990. After 2 am, there were hardly any customers that stopped to buy booze, cigarettes, chewing gum, snacks, condoms or gas! So,I had plenty of time to devour it. Most nights were uneventful except one late evening when there was a drive-by shooting 100-yards away from the pumps. I was instantly hooked on Apple's sociological study of education. He was a huge name in the study of politics and sociology of curriculum.

At the time, I was a student at the University of California at Davis and enrolled in an MA program in education, reading philosophy, psychology, linguistics, history and so on. .Subsequently, I enquired with him about the possibility of doing a PhD under his mentorship.

The rest is history as they say.

From the winter semester of 1992 till spring 1998, I spent 6 years under his academic supervision. We have been comrades and friends for the last 30+ years.

A month ago, I paid my old teacher - now 82 - a visit in his down-sized flat a short walk on Mill Street from the Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. We talked for a total of 6 hours over two consecutive days. He was generous with his time, and graciously allowed me to record an interview with him on his life's work. He is one of the world's leading sociologists of education who supervised over 100 doctoral students from around the world of whom only 1 or 2 did not complete their degrees, and has published 32 books in his half-century of influential academic career in the field.

The result is this 3-part podcast.

We touched on a wide variety of topics which were dear and near to both of us including the work of the renowned Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, the Friday Seminar he ran as a critical reading group at the home of the top-ranked Curriculum and Instruction Department, his own activism as a former teacher, a US military veteran and education, American imperialism and authoritarian regimes in places where he had held professorships including China. Apple came from a working class family of Eastern European Jewish migrants in Patterson, New Jersey, and considered himself proudly a "red diaper baby". He has been fuming about the Zionists, arrogating to themselves as "the voice of all Jews". Naturally, he shared his thoughts on Israel's ongoing genocide in Palestine.

Dr. Maung Zarni

By 3CR Radical Radio | May 26, 2023

Featuring the latest in activist campaigns and struggles against oppression fighting for a better world with anti-capitalist analysis on current affairs and international politics. 

Presenters: Jacob Andrewartha, Chloe DS

Maung Zarni, burmese scholar and activist with over three decades of experience in international politics & activists joined the program to reflect on the ongoing uprising in Myanmar against the millitary dictatorship and the nature of the Rohingya genocide and why it should have been opposed prior to the uprising. 

Note: Maung Zarni will be a featured speaker at the upcoming Ecosocialism 2023: A World Beyond Capitalism conference on July 1-2 in Naarm/Melbourne.

Dr Maung Zarni calls for the reassessment of bilateral and multilateral relations with the UN Member state of Myanmar, in the hands of the genocide perpetrators.

He urges the international community of democracies to provide Myanmar resistance with arms and other support in the same manner they are unequivocally arming and supporting Ukrainian resistance against the war criminal regime of Putin.

BBC World Radio

22 March 2022

Dr Maung Zarni: The International Court of Justice has overstepped its bounds by controversially accepting Myanmar Military's Agent, BBC World Service Newsday Program 6:20 GMT/London, 21 Feb 2022

Published by ABC on December 7, 2021

On RN Breakfast with Cathy Van Extel

A court in Myanmar has sentenced the country's ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, to two years on charges of inciting public unrest and breaching COVID-19 protocols. 

Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained in a military coup in February, is facing a total of 11 charges and life imprisonment.

Guest: Maung Zarni, human rights activist and founder of the Free Burma Coalition 

Producer:

Linda LoPresti

London, 7th May – In this latest episode of Trouble with the Truth, Lana speaks about the origins and the consequences of the coup with UK-based academic and human rights activist Maung Zarni.

It’s been over three months since the military coup in Myanmar that has resulted in violence and mass protests. Press freedom has suffered immensely, as the military junta shut down the internet, muzzled and attacked journalists. In this latest episode of Trouble with the Truth, Lana speaks about the origins and the consequences of the coup with UK-based academic and human rights activist Maung Zarni. He is a co-founder Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia network, Burmese coordinator of the Free Rohingya Coalition and has been engaged in activism for over thirty years. Zarni gave a detailed and thought-provoking account of the events in Myanmar – the unravelling of the coup, how people came together to join the fight against the junta and how civilians and journalists are navigating the social media and information shutdown. He touches on what can be done at a local and global level to help topple the military dictatorship.

Myanmar military cannot put the defiant Burmese people under its boot any more.

Dr Maung Zarni, BBC World Service Weekend, 6:30 GMT and 8:30 GMT, 21 Feb 2021

In the first episode of the 2021 Free Rohingya Coalition Genocide Podcast Series, Gregory Stanton and Daniel Feierstein, the past two Presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, shared their thoughts on the perennial question of INTENT in the Genocide Convention, and discuss The Gambia vs Myanmar case at the International Court of Justice.

Hosted by Dr. Maung Zarni