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Thinking with Stephen J. Ball

Author : Maria Tamboukou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000599701
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Thinking with Stephen J. Ball written by Maria Tamboukou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume explores how Stephen Ball’s work has shaped the field of the sociology of education worldwide. Written by internationally based researchers who are Ball’s former PhD students, it draws on different strands of his work to show what it means to think, write, and do research inspired by Ball’s theory, methodology, and epistemology. The contributions revolve around a wide range of themes including: the ethics of doing educational research, disability studies, the bio-politics of the child’s soul, lived experiences of marginalisation in education, educating migrant and refugee women in the borderlands, and post-Brexit reflections on the Bologna process. Chapters draw on different lines of thought from the corpus of a significant and influential figure in the sociology of education to present, explicate, and discuss a wide range of research projects, themes, theoretical directions, as well as methodological approaches in the field of the sociology of education today. More than celebrating Ball’s scholarship, this volume shows new and innovative directions in the sociology of education. It will be highly relevant reading for researchers, scholars, and students in the sociology of education, educational policy, and politics and educational theory.

Education Policy and Social Class

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415363983
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Education Policy and Social Class written by Stephen J. Ball and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 - from education policy and sociology to his work on education and social class.

Foucault and Education

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135170527X
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Foucault and Education written by Stephen J. Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially selected by Stephen Ball, this is a collection of the best and most interesting recently published papers that ‘use’ Foucault to analyse, destablise and re-claim educational ‘problems’. Arguably the best known social theorist in the western world, Foucault’s work is now widely used by researchers and writers in many fields of social science. These papers not only demonstrate the practical applicability of Foucault to things ‘cracked’ and things ‘intolerable’ in making them ‘not as necessary as all that’; they are also transposable, in that they offer forms and methods of analysis which can be taken up and applied and used in other settings, sectors, and policy fields.

The Education Debate

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447339282
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Education Debate written by Stephen J. Ball and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is a hot-button political issue across the globe. It is seen as a crucial factor in ensuring economic productivity and competitiveness and in generating social mobility and tackling social inequality--but are these goals feasible or compatible? Focusing on education policy in the United Kingdom, Stephen J. Ball, in this fully updated third edition of The Education Debate, guides us through the flood of government initiatives and policies of the past twenty years. Ball looks at how policy interventions have changed the landscape and meaning of education, turned children into "learners" and parents into "consumers," and played their part in the reformation of contemporary governance.

Foucault, Power, and Education

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415895367
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book Foucault, Power, and Education written by Stephen J. Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 research and analysis. An introductory chapter offers a brief explanation of some of Foucault's key concerns, while additional chapters explore ways in which Ball himself has sought to apply Foucault's ideas in addressing contemporary educational issues. In this intensely personal and reflective text, Ball offers an interpretation of his Foucault--That is, his own particular reading of the Foucauldian toolbox. Ideal for courses in education policy and education studies, this valuable teaching resource is essential reading for any education scholar looking for a starting point into the literature and ideas of Foucault.

Foucault as Educator

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319503022
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Foucault as Educator written by Stephen J. Ball and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 an exploration of his ‘method’ as a form of critique. That is, as a way of showing that things are ‘not as necessary as all that’, a way of addressing what is intolerable. This suggests that critique is education of a kind. Third, through a discussion of some of Foucault's later work on subjectivity and in particular on ‘the care of the self’ or what we might call ‘a pedagogy of the self’. Each chapter introduces and discusses some relevant examples from educational settings to illustrate and enact Foucault’s analytics.

Class Strategies and the Education Market

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113448352X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Class Strategies and the Education Market written by Stephen J. Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 around the key concepts of social closure, social capital, values and principles and risk, while bringing a broad range of up-to-date sociological theory to bear upon his subject. From this thorough analysis, valuable and thought-provoking insights emerge into the assiduous care and considerable effort and expenditure which goes into ensuring the educational success of the middle class child The middle classes are a sociological enigma, presenting the social researcher with considerable analytic and theoretical difficulties. Class Strategies and the Education Market provides a set of working tools for class analysis and the examination of class practices. Above all, it offers new ways of thinking about class theory and the relationships between classes in late modern society.

The Micro-Politics of the School

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415675332
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Micro-Politics of the School written by Stephen J. Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 schools. Through case studies and interviews with teachers, the book captures the flavour of real conflicts in schools - particularly in times of falling rolls, change of leadership or amalgamations - when teachers' autonomy seems to be at stake.

Education Policy and Social Class

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113422592X
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Education Policy and Social Class written by Stephen J. Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 technologies and policy analysis social class and education policy. Each chapter presents innovative ways of thinking about public policy, asking probing questions about what policy is, how policy is influenced and what effects intentional and unintentional policies have. As a body of work, this collection raises issues of ethics and social justice which are often neglected in the mass of policies that now affect every aspect of our education systems.

Foucault and Education

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135174679
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Foucault and Education written by Stephen J. Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the application of Foucauldian analysis to education enables us to see the politics of educational reform in a new light.

The Sociology of Education

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138827899
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Education written by Stephen J. Ball and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1. Theory and Method -- Volume 2. Inequalities -- Volume 3. Politics -- Volume 4. Institutions

Education, Globalisation and New Times

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134093276
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Education, Globalisation and New Times written by Stephen J. Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education, Globalisation and New Times comprises a selection of the most influential papers published over the twenty-one years of the Journal of Education Policy. Written by many of the leading scholars in the field, these seminal papers cover a variety of subjects, sectors and levels of education, focused around the following major themes: education, globalisation and new times policy theory and method policy and equity. Compiled by the journal's editors, Stephen Ball, Ivor Goodson and Meg Maguire, the book illustrates the development of the field of education policy studies, and the specially written Introduction contextualises the selection, whilst introducing students to the main issues and current thinking in the field.

Thinking Off Your Feet

Author : Michael Strevens
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674989708
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Off Your Feet written by Michael Strevens and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an original defense of armchair philosophy, Michael Strevens seeks to restore philosophy to its traditional position as an essential part of the quest for knowledge, by reshaping debates about the nature of philosophical thinking. His approach explores experimental philosophy’s methodological implications and the cognitive science of concepts.

Lessons from History of Education

Author : Richard Aldrich
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415358927
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book Lessons from History of Education written by Richard Aldrich and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 14 of Richard Aldrich's key writings. Click on the link below to access this e-book. Please note that you may require an Athens account.

Politics and Policy Making in Education

Author : Stephen J. Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415675340
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Policy Making in Education written by Stephen J. Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Using direct quotations from senior civil servants and former secretaries of state it provides a fascinating insight into the way in which policy is made. The book focuses on real-life political conflicts, examining the way in which education policy was related to the ideal of society projected by Thatcherism. It looks in detail at the New Right government advisers and think tanks; the industrial lobby, addressing issues such as the National Curriculum, national testing and City Technical Colleges. The author sets these important issues within a clear theoretical framework which illuminates the whole process of policy making.

Policy Actors

Author : Stephen Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135178935X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Policy Actors written by Stephen Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy analysis has always attended to the role of elite actors, but much less often has the policy activity of ‘street level’ actors been attended to. The ‘implementation’ paradigm has tended to caricature the level of practice in terms of ‘resistors’ or policy failure, and ignored the demanding, creative and complex processes of enacting policy. The move from policy texts to policy in action involves sophisticated processes of interpretation and translation, as well as, at times, opposition, subversion and strategic compliance. The chapters in this book, in different ways, seek to get inside the policy process to understand what policy actors really do – how they manage impossible and multiple policy expectations, how they attempt to do policy with limited resources in conditions often unimagined by those who write policy, and how they translate abstract policy formulations into things that are doable, immediate and relevant. The collection re-writes the policy process and offers new ways of researching policy and policy outcomes. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education Policy.

How Professors Think

Author : Michèle Lamont
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674054156
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book How Professors Think written by Michèle Lamont and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excellence. Originality. Intelligence. Everyone in academia stresses quality. But what exactly is it, and how do professors identify it? In the academic evaluation system known as “peer review,” highly respected professors pass judgment, usually confidentially, on the work of others. But only those present in the deliberative chambers know exactly what is said. Michèle Lamont observed deliberations for fellowships and research grants, and interviewed panel members at length. In How Professors Think, she reveals what she discovered about this secretive, powerful, peculiar world. Anthropologists, political scientists, literary scholars, economists, historians, and philosophers don’t share the same standards. Economists prefer mathematical models, historians favor different kinds of evidence, and philosophers don’t care much if only other philosophers understand them. But when they come together for peer assessment, academics are expected to explain their criteria, respect each other’s expertise, and guard against admiring only work that resembles their own. They must decide: Is the research original and important? Brave, or glib? Timely, or merely trendy? Pro-diversity or interdisciplinary enough? Judging quality isn’t robotically rational; it’s emotional, cognitive, and social, too. Yet most academics’ self-respect is rooted in their ability to analyze complexity and recognize quality, in order to come to the fairest decisions about that elusive god, “excellence.” In How Professors Think, Lamont aims to illuminate the confidential process of evaluation and to push the gatekeepers to both better understand and perform their role.