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  • GOVERNING BY NUMBERS
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    GOVERNING BY NUMBERS
    STEPHEN J. BALL
    Social science researchers have become increasing attentive to the role of numbers in contemporary life. Issues around big data, national test results, and output and performance statistics are now routinely reported and debated in the media. Numbers are a powerful resource for governments as a means to manage and ‘improve’ their populations, and we are increasingly represented...

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  • MICHEL FOUCAULT AND EDUCATION POLICY ANALYSIS
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    MICHEL FOUCAULT AND EDUCATION POLICY ANALYSIS
    STEPHEN J. BALL
    The work of Michel Foucault has become a major resource for educational researchers seeking to understand how education makes us what we are. In this book, a group of contributors explore how Foucault’s work is used in a variety of ways to explore the ‘hows’ and ‘whos’ of education policy – its technologies and its subjectivities, its oppressions and its freedoms. The book take...

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  • REFORMING EDUCATION AND CHANGING SCHOOLS
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    REFORMING EDUCATION AND CHANGING SCHOOLS
    RICHARD BOWE / STEPHEN J. BALL / ANNE GOLD
    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...

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  • EDU.NET
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    EDU.NET
    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 way in which global actors and organisations bring policy ideas to bear and are ...

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  • THE COLOUR OF CLASS
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    THE COLOUR OF CLASS
    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 ...

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  • FOUCAULT, POWER, AND EDUCATION
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    FOUCAULT, POWER, AND EDUCATION
    STEPHEN J. BALL
    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...

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  • DEFINING THE CURRICULUM
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    DEFINING THE CURRICULUM
    GOODSON, IVOR F. / BALL, STEPHEN J
    This book explores some of the major processes involved in the definition of school subject knowledge. Using historical ethnographic methods, the contributors to the collection highlight and examine some of the factors involved at national, institutional and classroom levels in the making of school subjects. The first section of the book outlines the theoretical and methodologi...

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  • THE MICRO-POLITICS OF THE SCHOOL
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    THE MICRO-POLITICS OF THE SCHOOL
    STEPHEN J. BALL
    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 the adequacy and appropriateness of the existing forms of organizational control in scho...

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  • POLITICS AND POLICY MAKING IN EDUCATION
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    POLITICS AND POLICY MAKING IN EDUCATION
    STEPHEN J. BALL
    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...

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  • GLOBAL EDUCATION INC.
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    GLOBAL EDUCATION INC.
    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 ...

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  • HOW SCHOOLS DO POLICY
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    HOW SCHOOLS DO POLICY
    STEPHEN J BALL / MEG MAGUIRE / ANNETTE BRAUN
    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 ...

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  • EDUCATION PLC
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    EDUCATION PLC
    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...

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  • CHILDCARE, CHOICE AND CLASS PRACTICES
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    CHILDCARE, CHOICE AND CLASS PRACTICES
    CAROL VINCENT / STEPHEN J. BALL
    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 and class fractions, social reproduction, gendered responsibilities and conceptions...

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  • EDUCATION POLICY AND SOCIAL CLASS
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    EDUCATION POLICY AND SOCIAL CLASS
    STEPHEN J. BALL
    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 research policy ...

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  • CLASS STRATEGIES AND THE EDUCATION MARKET
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    CLASS STRATEGIES AND THE EDUCATION MARKET
    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 org...

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  • TEACHERS' LIVES AND CAREERS
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    TEACHERS' LIVES AND CAREERS
    DR STEPHEN J BALL
    This volume explores the contemporary situation of teachers' careers and teachers' lives in the context of falling roles, educational cuts and government demands for fundamental change in educational processes. ...

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