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Authors: Stephen, Ball, Ivor F. Goodson (Editor), Meg Maguire
ISBN-13: 9780415425988, ISBN-10: 0415425980
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 2007
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Stephen, Ball

Book Synopsis

Education, Globalisation and New Times comprises a selection of the most influential papers published over the twenty-one years of the journal’s history. 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. This volume is part of the Education Heritage series. For details of other books in the series, please go to www.routledge.com/education

Table of Contents


Introduction: the seething and swirling of education policy     ix
New education in new times   Jane Kenway   Chris Bigum   Lindsay Fitzclarence   Janine Collier   Karen Tregenza     1
Localization/globalization and the midwife state: strategic dilemmas for state feminism in education?   Jill Blackmore     21
The lessons of international education reform   Benjamin Levin     47
Specifying globalization effects on national policy: a focus on the mechanisms   Roger Dale     64
Educational change and new cleavages between head teachers, teachers and parents: global and local perspectives on the French case   Agnes Van Zanten     83
In search of structure: theory and practice in the management of education   David Hartley     102
Subjected to review: engendering quality and power in higher education   Louise Morley     114
'Bodies are dangerous': using feminist genealogy as policy studies methodology   Wanda Pillow     130
Critical policy sociology: historiography, archaeology and genealogy as methods of policy analysis   Trevor Gale     148
The construction and deconstruction of educational policy documents   John A. Codd     167
Community, philosophy and education policy: againsteffectiveness ideology and the immiseration of contemporary schooling   MICHAEL Fielding     183
Towards a view of policy analysis as practical reason   Fazal Rizvi     205
Critical inter/multicultural education and the process of transnationalization: a view from the semiperiphery   Stephen R. Stoer   Luiza Cortesao     222
Macroecological reforms as a strategy for reducing educational risks associated with poverty   John A. Kovach     237
Renovating educational identities: policy, space and urban renewal   Kalervo N. Gulson     250
Power, pedagogy and persuasion: schooling masculinities in the secondary school classroom   Lynn Raphael Reed     270
Framing justice: challenges for research   Terri Seddon     291
Progress at school and school effectiveness: non-cognitive dispositions and within-class markets   Roy Nash     319
Equity in educational policy: a priority in transformation or in trouble?   Jerry Paquette     335
Index     361

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