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Education policy and social class : the selected works of Stephen J. Ball / Stephen J. Ball.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: World library of educationalists seriesPublication details: London : Routledge, 2006.Description: ix, 290 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415363976:
  • 9780415363983:
  • 0415363977
  • 0415363985 (pbk.)
  • 9780415363983 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 379.41
LOC classification:
  • B33 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction : the problem of policy -- Policy sociology and critical social research : a personal review of recent education policy and policy research -- Discipline and chaos : the new right and discourses of derision -- What is policy? : texts, trajectories, and toolboxes -- Educational studies, policy entrepreneurship, and social theory -- Big policies/small world : an introduction to international perspectives in education policy -- Ethics, self interest and the market form in education -- Good school/bad school : paradox and fabrication -- Educational reform, market concepts, and ethical re-tooling -- Standards in education : privatisation, profit and values -- The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity -- Circuits of schooling : a sociological exploration of parental choice of school in social class contexts -- Space, work, and the 'new urban economies' -- Social justice in the head : are we all libertarians now? -- 'Ethnic choosing' : minority ethnic students, social class and higher education choice -- 'I heard it on the grapevine' : 'hot' knowledge and school choice -- The risks of social reproduction : the middle class and education markets.

CW808

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the problem of policy -- Policy sociology and critical social research : a personal review of recent education policy and policy research -- Discipline and chaos : the new right and discourses of derision -- What is policy? : texts, trajectories, and toolboxes -- Educational studies, policy entrepreneurship, and social theory -- Big policies/small world : an introduction to international perspectives in education policy -- Ethics, self interest and the market form in education -- Good school/bad school : paradox and fabrication -- Educational reform, market concepts, and ethical re-tooling -- Standards in education : privatisation, profit and values -- The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity -- Circuits of schooling : a sociological exploration of parental choice of school in social class contexts -- Space, work, and the 'new urban economies' -- Social justice in the head : are we all libertarians now? -- 'Ethnic choosing' : minority ethnic students, social class and higher education choice -- 'I heard it on the grapevine' : 'hot' knowledge and school choice -- The risks of social reproduction : the middle class and education markets.

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