Education Policy and Social Class: The Selected Works of Stephen J. Ball
In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands of their work and see their contribution to the development of a field.\ Stephen Ball has spent the last 20 years...
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In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and/practical contributions - so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands of their work and see their contribution to the development of a field.Stephen Ball has spent the last 20 years researching, thinking and writing about some of the key and enduring issues in Education Policy and Sociology of education. He has contributed over 12 books and 200 articles to the field. In Education Policy and Social Class, he brings together 16 of his key writings in one place. Starting with a specially written Introduction, which gives an overview of Stephen's career and contextualises his selection within the development of the field, the chapters are divided into three sections:* Perspectives on Policy Research * Policy Technologies and Policy Analysis* Social Class and Education Policy This book not only shows how Stephen's thinking has developed during his long and distinguished career; it also gives an insight into the development of the fields to which he contributed.
Introduction : the problem of policy11Policy sociology and critical social research : a personal review of recent education policy and policy research92Discipline and chaos : the new right and discourses of derision263What is policy? : texts, trajectories and toolboxes434Educational studies, policy entrepreneurship and social theory545Big policies/small world : an introduction to international perspectives in education policy676Ethics, self-interest and the market form in education817Good school/bad school : paradox and fabrication968Educational reform, market concepts and ethical re-tooling1159Standards in education : privatisation, profit and values13010The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity14311Circuits of schooling : a sociological exploration of parental choice of school in social class contexts15912Space, work and the 'new urban economies'17813Social justice in the head : are we all libertarians now?19814'Ethnic choosing' : minority ethnic students, social class and higher education choice21515'I heard it on the grapevine' : 'hot' knowledge and school choice23716The risks of social reproduction : the middle class and education markets264
