Stephen J Ball: 15 books
by Stephen J. Ball
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about education,...
Education Policy and Social Class
The Selected Works of Stephen J. Ball
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2005
Bringing together twenty years of research and writing, this book provides an overview of Stephen Ball’s career and shows not only the development of his most important ideas but also the long-lasting contributions he has made to the field of educational policy analysis. This volume contains sixteen...
Education plc
Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair education for all learners?
In Education plc, Stephen Ball provides a comprehensive, analytic and empirical account of the privatisation of education. He questions the kind of future we want for education...
Class Strategies and the Education Market
The Middle Classes and Social Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education.
Drawing on an extensive series of interviews with parents and children, this book identifies key moments of decision making in the construction...
The Micro-Politics of the School
Towards a Theory of School Organization
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Stephen Ball’s micro-political theory of school organization is a radical departure from traditional theories. He rejects a prescriptive ‘top down’ approach and directly addresses the interest and concerns of teachers and current problems facing schools. In doing so he raises question about...
by Stephen J. Ball
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book considers Foucault as educator in three main ways. First, through some consideration of what his work says about education as a social and political practice. That is, education as a form of what Allen (2014) calls benign violence – which operates through mundane, quotidian disciplinary...
Politics and Policy Making in Education
Explorations in Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Based on interviews with key actors in the policy-making process, this book maps the changes in education policy and policy making in the Thatcherite decade. The focus of the book is the 1988 Education Reform Act, its origins, purposes and effects, and it looks behind the scenes at the priorities...
How Schools Do Policy
Policy Enactments in Secondary Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Over the last 20 years, international attempts to raise educational standards and improve opportunities for all children have accelerated and proliferated. This has generated a state of constant change and an unrelenting flood of initiatives, changes and reforms that need to beimplemented by schools. In response to this, a great deal of attentio
Childcare, Choice and Class Practices
Middle Class Parents and their Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Childcare is a topic that is frequently in the media spotlight and continues to spark heated debate in the UK and around the world. This book presents an in-depth study of childcare policy and practice, examining middle class parents’ choice of childcare within the wider contexts of social class...
Edu.net
Globalisation and Education Policy Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Edu.net builds upon, and extends, a series of research studies of education policy networks and global policy mobilities. It draws on comprehensive data resulting from a Leverhulme Trust research study focused on Africa, and a study funded by the British Academy focused on India, which explored the...
The Colour of Class
The educational strategies of the Black middle classes
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
How do race and class intersect to shape the identities and experiences of Black middle-class parents and their children? What are Black middle-class parents’ strategies for supporting their children through school? What role do the educational histories of Black middle-class parents play in their...
Reforming Education and Changing Schools
Case studies in policy sociology
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
The Education Reform Act introduced in England and Wales in 1988 brought about enormous changes in schools, both as management units and as educational institutions. This book, first published in 1992, was the first to look at the effects of the Act in all its aspects on the basis of empirical evidence...
Global Education Inc.
New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in itswelfare form?Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision ofbest practice based on the methods and tenets of theneo-liberal imaginary. Philanthro
by Junemann, Carolina, Ball
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
The public sector is going through a period of fundamental change. Service delivery, policy making and policy processes are being carried out by new actors and organisations with new interests, methods and discourses, related to the emergence of new forms of governance. This timely book from bestselling...
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