Education policy and social class
Subtitle: the selected works of Stephen Ball
By: Stephen Ball.
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Education and state -- Great Britain; Educational sociology -- Great Britain; Educational equalization -- Great Britain; Social classes -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Policy sociology and critical social research : a personal review of recent education policy and policy research; title: Discipline and chaos : the new right and discourses of derision; title: What is policy? : texts, trajectories, and toolboxes; title: Educational studies, policy entrepreneurship, and social theory; title: Big policies/small world : an introduction to international perspectives on education policy; title: Ethics, self interest, and the market form in education; title: Good school/bad school : paradox and fabrication; title: Educational reform, market concepts, and ethical re-tooling; title: Standards in education : privatisation, profit, and values; title: The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity; title: Circuits of schooling : a sociological exploration of parental choice of school in social class contexts / Ball, S.J., R. Bowe, and S. Gewirtz; title: Space, work, and the "new urban economies" / Ball, S.J., M. Maguire, and S. Macrae; title: Social justice in the head : are we all libertarians now; title: "Ethnic choosing" : minority ethnic students and higher education choice / Ball, S.J., D. Reay, D. and M. David; title: "I heard it on the grapevine" : "hot" knowledge and school choice / Ball. S.J., and C. Vincent; title: The risks of social reproduction : the middle class and education markets.