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)
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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