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  • Against School

    Thinking Education Differently

    by Stephen J. Ball, Jordi Collet-Sabé ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book invites the reader to think education against, beyond and without the school and its paraphernalia. To think about ‘education’, rather than schooling, and what kind of education is relevant to and needed now in the complex, difficult and dangerous world we live in. That invitation means testing our limits, questioning and changing ourselves and thinking the practice of education ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Education Debate

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Policy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
    Education policy in England is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly incoherent and it is therefore becoming harder to keep up with, and make sense of, all the changes. This bestselling book looks at the role of the UK as a social laboratory for global education policy. Covering key concepts, it then examines new areas, including:• Global education policy mobility• Edu-business and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Conservative Governments and Social Policy

    by Nick Ellison, Ian Greener, Peter Squires, Anne Daguerre, David Etherington, Catherine Bochel, Val Gillies, Rosalind Edwards, Stephen J. Ball, Harriet Churchill, Andrew Defty, Steven Corbett, Jon Glasby, Ann Marie Gray, Stephen D. McKay, Karen Rowlingson, Kirstein Rummery, Peter Somerville ...
    Focusing on the policy approaches of Conservative governments since 2015, this book examines key social policy areas including education, health, housing, employment, children and young people, and more.Respected social policy researchers explore the degree to which the positions and policies of recent Conservative governments have differed from the previous Coalition government (2010–15). They ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Neoliberalism and Education

    Edited by Bronwen M.A. Jones, Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Education and Social Theory
    The ongoing neoliberalisation of education is complex, varied and relentless. It involves increasingly diverse material and structural changes to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and at the same time transforms how we are made up as educational subjects. It rearticulates what it means to be educated. This collection brings together creative and unanticipated examples of the adoption and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Education Policy and Social Class

    The Selected Works of Stephen J. Ball

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series World Library of Educationalists
    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 key essays divided into three sections:perspectives on policy researchpolicy technologies and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Global Education Inc.

    New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    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 ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Foucault, Power, and Education

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Key Ideas in Education
    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, Ball highlights the relationships between Foucault’s concepts and methods, and educational ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Foucault as Educator

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    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 technologies and expert knowledges which together construct a ‘pedagogical machine’. Second, through ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Colour of Class

    The educational strategies of the Black middle classes

    by Nicola Rollock, David Gillborn, Carol Vincent, Stephen J. Ball ...
    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 decision-making about their children’s education?There is now an extensive body of research on the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Edu.net

    Globalisation and Education Policy Mobility

    by Stephen J. Ball, Carolina Junemann, Diego Santori ...
    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 wayin which global actors and organisations bring policy ideas to bear and are joined up in a global ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Foucault and Education

    Disciplines and Knowledge

    Edited by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Michel Foucault
    First published in 1990, this book was the first to explore Foucault's work in relation to education, arguing that schools, like prisons and asylums, are institutions of moral and social regulation, complex technologies of disciplinary control where power and knowledge are crucial. Original and challenging, the essays assess the relevance of Foucault's work to educational practice, and show how ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • World Yearbook of Education 2015

    Elites, Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage

    Edited by Agnès van Zanten, Stephen J. Ball, Brigitte Darchy-Koechlin ...
    Series series World Yearbook of Education
    This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites and inequality, focusing particularly on the ways in which established and emergent groups located at the top of the social hierarchy and power structure reproduce, establish or redefine their position.The volume is organized around three main issues:analyzing the way in which parents, students and graduates ... Read more

    $76.99 USD