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The Selected Works of Stephen J. Ball
This book brings together in one place Stephen Ball's key writings. Drawing on over 20 years' work, Professor Ball has selected his most seminal work ...
Education is a hot-button political issue across the globe. It is seen as a crucial factor in ensuring economic productivity and competitiveness and i...
New Policy Networks and the Neo-liberal Imaginary
Using the approach of 'policy sociology' and the methods of social network analysis, Stephen Ball explores the policy activities of edu-businesses, ne...
This topical book uses network analysis and interviews with key actors to address the changes in education, with a focus on education and the role of ...
Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his ...
Education was a key political issue for New Labour (1997-2010) and continues to be so under the Coalition government (2010-). It is seen as a crucial ...
Towards a Theory of School Organization
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Stephen Ball's micro-political theory of school organization is a radical departure from traditional theories. He rejects a prescriptive 'top down' ap...
A Critical and Post-structural Approach
This book builds upon Stephen J Ball's previous work in the field of education policy analysis. It subjects the ongoing reforms in UK education to a r...
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 p...
Policy Enactments in Secondary Schools
Based on a long term qualitative study of four 'ordinary' secondary schools, and working on the interface of theory with data, this book explores how ...
Case studies in policy sociology
The Education Reform Act introduced in England and Wales in 1988 brought about enormous changes in schools, both as management units and as educationa...
Class, Race, Gender and Higher Education
An account of the overlapping effects of social class, ethnicity and gender in the process of choosing which university to attend. The shift from an e...
Explorations in Sociology
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 ...
The Middle Classes and Social Advantage
Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through ed...
Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education
Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair education for all learners? In Education plc, Stephen Ba...
Globalisation and Education Policy Mobility
Edu.net builds upon, and extends, a series of research studies of education policy networks and global policy mobilities. It draws on comprehensive da...
The educational strategies of the Black middle classes
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 ...
Examines the complexities of parental choices and school responses to the introduction of market forces in education. Particular attention is paid to ...
This volume explores the contemporary situation of teachers' careers and teachers' lives in the context of falling roles, educational cuts and governm...
A Case-Study of Secondary Schooling
This important account of the experiences of schooling of the pupils in a single comprehensive school is based on three years' field work which Stephe...
Middle Class Parents and their Children
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...
New Youth, New Economies in the Global City
This text examines the choices of young people as they move from mandatory schooling and into their first year of post-16 experience. It shows the pol...
Educational Research, Social Class and 'Interlocking' Inequalities
This lecture examines a set of issues involved in how social class gets โdoneโ in various sites: the day-to-day processes of social reproduction w...