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 wayin which global actors and organisations bring policy ideas to bear and are joined up in a global education policy network.
This timely and cutting-edge new work develops concepts, analyses and methods deployed in Education Plc (2008), Networks, New...
Edu.net builds upon, and extends, a series of research studies of education policy networks and global policy mobilities. It draws on comp...
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 wayin which global actors and organisations bring policy ideas to bear and are joined up in a global education policy network.
This timely and cutting-edge new work develops concepts, analyses and methods deployed in Education Plc (2008), Networks, New...
Edu.net builds upon, and extends, a series of research studies of education policy networks and global policy mobilities. It draws on comp...
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, organized and driven by an economy of numbers, which inserts itself into more and more aspects of our lives.
This book critically addresses some of the ways in which numbers are deployed in educational...
Social science researchers have become increasing attentive to the role of numbers in contemporary life. Issues around big data, national test resu...
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...
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...
A new title from Routledge s Major Themes in Education series, Sociology of Education II is a four-volume anthology of the very best scholarship. It is an essential successor to Sociology of Education (2000), also edited by Stephen J. Ball.
Sociology of Education (2000) was the first comprehensive compendium of the field s canonical and cutting-edge research, and this new collection now takes full account of the numerous important developments that have taken place since its appearance. Moreover, Sociology of Education II also includes coverage of many...
A new title from Routledge s Major Themes in Education series, Sociology of Education II is a four-volume anthology of the very best scholar...
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...
Education is a hot-button political issue across the globe. It is seen as a crucial factor in ensuring economic productivity and competitiveness and i...
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...
Specially selected by Stephen Ball, this is a collection of the best and most interesting recently published papers that 'use' Foucault to analyse,...
