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  • Playing Card Divination

    Every Card Tells a Story

    by Stephen Ball ...
    Develop your own path of wisdom with a simple deck of cards.Turn a standard deck of playing cards into a colorful divinatory system filled with inspiration, adventure, insight, and advice. In Playing Card Divination, each card from ace through king represents a mythic role (Hunter, Lover, Healer, etc.) and each of the four suits gives an action for that role (Promise, Gambit, Folly, Triumph). This ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences

    Immigrant Memoirs, Reform, and Belonging Across Early Twentieth-Century America

    by Martin Andersen Nexø, Myra Kelly, Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot, Margaret Wilson, Friedrich Gerstäcker, Finley Peter Dunne, Broughton Brandenburg, Mary Antin, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, Peter A. Speek, George Fraser Black, Sui Sin Far, United States. Office of Education, Inc. Columbia Broadcasting System, John Robertson Henry, Council of Women for Home Missions, Home Missions Council, Eva Stern, Anzia Yezierska, Eustace Hale Ball, Stephen Graham, Emily P. Weaver, Thomas Ostenson Stine, J. P. MacLean, George T. Flom, Clara M. S. Lowe, Patrick Matthew, Scots New Zealand Land Company, F. S. Brereton, James Seton Cockburn, George A. Birmingham ...
    Journey Beyond Borders: 30 Books on Immigration Experiences surveys migration as both an intimate upheaval and a public force shaping modern societies. Across fiction, memoir, reportage, social investigation, educational materials, and historical reflection, the volume ranges from tales of arrival and labor to analyses of settlement, language, race, gender, and national belonging. Its ... Read more

    Was $1.99 USD Now $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reforming Education and Changing Schools

    Case studies in policy sociology

    by Richard Bowe, Stephen J. Ball, Anne Gold ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    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 gathered from schools over the first three years of the Act's implementation. It looks at how ... Read more

    $49.99 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

    $57.99 USD

  • The Labour Government and Social Policy

    by Stephen J. Ball, Patrick Bailey, Harriet Churchill, Sara Cutler, Anne Daguerre, Andrew Defty, Rosalind Edwards, Nick Ellison, David Etherington, Jon Glasby, Ann Marie Gray, Bronwen Jones, Stephen D. McKay, Karen Rowlingson, Kirstein Rummery, Nando Sigona, Carolyn Snell, Peter Somerville, Peter Squires, Sharon Wright ...
    In 2024, following years of austerity, political instability and external shocks including Brexit, COVID-19 and the cost-of-living crisis, the Labour Party was voted into power in the UK. This book is the first in-depth analysis of the Labour government from a social policy perspective.Through expert chapters covering broad themes such as public expenditure, public opinion and devolution, and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Playing Card Divination

    Every Card Tells a Story

    by Stephen Ball ...
    Develop your own path of wisdom with a simple deck of cards.Turn a standard deck of playing cards into a colorful divinatory system filled with inspiration, adventure, insight, and advice. In Playing Card Divination, each card from ace through king represents a mythic role (Hunter, Lover, Healer, etc.) and each of the four suits gives an action for that role (Promise, Gambit, Folly, Triumph). This ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Class Strategies and the Education Market

    The Middle Classes and Social Advantage

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    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 of the educational trajectories of middle class children. Stephen J. Ball organises his analysis ... Read more

    Was $72.99 USD Now $64.99 USD

  • Politics and Policy Making in Education

    Explorations in Sociology

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    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 of the politicians, civil servants and government advisers who were influential in making changes. ... Read more

    Was $77.99 USD Now $69.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

    $66.99 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

    $66.99 USD

  • Education plc

    Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    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 and what role privatisation and the private sector may have in that future. Using policy sociology to ... Read more

    $72.99 USD