Author: Stephen J. Ball

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Stephen J. Ball is Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and author of a series of books on education policy and politics including The Education Debate. Carolina Junemann is a researcher and teacher at the Institute of Education, University of London. Her research interests focus on student dropout, social class and education policy.




61 Ebooks by Stephen J. Ball

Stephen J. Ball & Carolina Junemann: Networks, New Governance and Education
The public sector is going through a period of fundamental change. Service delivery, policy making and policy processes are being carried out by new actors and organisations with new interests, metho …
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€40.99
Stephen J. Ball: Foucault as Educator
This book considers Foucault as educator in three main ways. First, through some consideration of what his work says about education as a social and political practice. That is, education as a form o …
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€74.89
Stephen J. Ball & Carol Vincent: Childcare, Choice and Class Practices
Childcare is a topic that is frequently in the media spotlight and continues to spark heated debate in the UK and around the world. This book presents an in-depth study of childcare policy and practi …
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€36.03
Stephen J. Ball: Class Strategies and the Education Market
Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education.Drawing on an extensive series of intervi …
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€38.04
Michael W. Apple & Stephen J. Ball: Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education
This collection brings together many of the world’s leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. The chapters draw upon theory and research …
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€141.23
Stephen J. Ball & Ivor F. Goodson: Education, Globalisation and New Times
Education, Globalisation and New Times comprises a selection of the most influential papers published over the twenty-one years of the Journal of Education Policy. Written by many of the leading scho …
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€115.25
Stephen J. Ball: Education plc
Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair education for all learners? In Education plc, Stephen Ball provides a comprehensive, analytic and empiric …
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€30.63
Bryan Cunningham: Exploring Professionalism
Exploring key issues in professional life such as how we define ourselves, how we learn as professionals, and what impact current changes and challenges are having on the nature of professional work, …
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€24.44
Stephen J. Ball & Ivor F. Goodson: Education, Globalisation and New Times
Education, Globalisation and New Times comprises a selection of the most influential papers published over the twenty-one years of the Journal of Education Policy. Written by many of the leading scho …
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€55.42
Stephen J. Ball & Ivor F. Goodson: Education, Globalisation and New Times
Education, Globalisation and New Times comprises a selection of the most influential papers published over the twenty-one years of the Journal of Education Policy. Written by many of the leading scho …
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€55.27
Stephen J. Ball: Education plc
Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair education for all learners? In Education plc, Stephen Ball provides a comprehensive, analytic and empiric …
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€60.57
Stephen J. Ball: Education plc
Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair education for all learners? In Education plc, Stephen Ball provides a comprehensive, analytic and empiric …
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€60.33
Stephen J. Ball: Education Policy and Social Class
Bringing together twenty years of research and writing, this book provides an overview of Stephen Ball’s career and shows not only the development of his most important ideas but also the long-lastin …
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€55.04
Stephen J. Ball: Education Policy and Social Class
Bringing together twenty years of research and writing, this book provides an overview of Stephen Ball’s career and shows not only the development of his most important ideas but also the long-lastin …
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€55.30
Stephen J. Ball & Carol Vincent: Childcare, Choice and Class Practices
Childcare is a topic that is frequently in the media spotlight and continues to spark heated debate in the UK and around the world. This book presents an in-depth study of childcare policy and practi …
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€63.04
Stephen J. Ball & Carol Vincent: Childcare, Choice and Class Practices
Childcare is a topic that is frequently in the media spotlight and continues to spark heated debate in the UK and around the world. This book presents an in-depth study of childcare policy and practi …
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€62.72
Stephen J. Ball: Class Strategies and the Education Market
Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education.Drawing on an extensive series of intervi …
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€59.90
Stephen J. Ball: Class Strategies and the Education Market
Class Strategies and the Education Market examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education.Drawing on an extensive series of intervi …
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English
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€59.91
Stephen J. (Institute of Education, University of London, UK) Ball: Foucault and Education
First published in 1990, this book was the first to explore Foucault”s work in relation to education, arguing that schools, like prisons and asylums, are institutions of moral and social regulation, …
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€56.32
Stephen J. (Institute of Education, University of London, UK) Ball: Foucault and Education
First published in 1990, this book was the first to explore Foucault”s work in relation to education, arguing that schools, like prisons and asylums, are institutions of moral and social regulation, …
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€56.32
Michael W. Apple & Stephen J. Ball: The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education
This collection brings together many of the world’s leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. The thirty-seven newly commissioned ch …
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€88.97
Michael W. Apple & Stephen J. Ball: The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education
This collection brings together many of the world’s leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. The thirty-seven newly commissioned ch …
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€88.97
Stephen J. Ball: Foucault, Power, and Education
Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some o …
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€47.49
Stephen J. Ball: Foucault, Power, and Education
Foucault, Power, and Education invites internationally renowned scholar Stephen J. Ball to reflect on the importance and influence of Foucault on his work in educational policy. By focusing on some o …
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€47.60
Stephen J. Ball: Global Education Inc.
Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in itswelfare form?Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies a …
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€55.46
Stephen J. Ball: Politics and Policy Making in Education
Based on interviews with key actors in the policy-making process, this book maps the changes in education policy and policy making in the Thatcherite decade. The focus of the book is the 1988 Educati …
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€66.65
Stephen J. Ball: Politics and Policy Making in Education
Based on interviews with key actors in the policy-making process, this book maps the changes in education policy and policy making in the Thatcherite decade. The focus of the book is the 1988 Educati …
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€67.01
Stephen J. Ball: Micro-Politics of the School
Stephen Ball’s micro-political theory of school organization is a radical departure from traditional theories. He rejects a prescriptive ‘top down’ approach and directly addresses the interest and co …
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€62.92
Stephen J. Ball: Micro-Politics of the School
Stephen Ball’s micro-political theory of school organization is a radical departure from traditional theories. He rejects a prescriptive ‘top down’ approach and directly addresses the interest and co …
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€63.29
Stephen J. Ball & Richard Bowe: Reforming Education and Changing Schools
The Education Reform Act introduced in England and Wales in 1988 brought about enormous changes in schools, both as management units and as educational institutions. This book, first published in 199 …
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€41.27
Stephen J. Ball & Richard Bowe: Reforming Education and Changing Schools
The Education Reform Act introduced in England and Wales in 1988 brought about enormous changes in schools, both as management units and as educational institutions. This book, first published in 199 …
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€40.94
Stephen J. Ball & Anthony G. Green: Progress and Inequality in Comprehensive Education
This book, first published in 1988, examines the development of secondary comprehensive education from the 1960s to the 1980s. Tensions and transformations in the meaning and practice of ‘comprehensi …
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€44.90
Stephen J. Ball & Anthony G. Green: Progress and Inequality in Comprehensive Education
This book, first published in 1988, examines the development of secondary comprehensive education from the 1960s to the 1980s. Tensions and transformations in the meaning and practice of ‘comprehensi …
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€44.92
Stephen J. Ball & Carolina Junemann: Edu.net
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 stu …
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€46.91
Stephen J. Ball & Carolina Junemann: Edu.net
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 stu …
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€47.60
Stephen Ball: Michel Foucault and Education Policy Analysis
The work of Michel Foucault has become a major resource for educational researchers seeking to understand how education makes us what we are. In this book, a group of contributors explore how Foucaul …
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€60.47
Stephen Ball: Michel Foucault and Education Policy Analysis
The work of Michel Foucault has become a major resource for educational researchers seeking to understand how education makes us what we are. In this book, a group of contributors explore how Foucaul …
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€60.44
Stephen J. Ball & David Gillborn: Colour of Class
How do race and class intersect to shape the identities and experiences of Black middle-class parents and their children? What are Black middle-class parents’ strategies for supporting their children …
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€60.57
Stephen J. Ball & David Gillborn: Colour of Class
How do race and class intersect to shape the identities and experiences of Black middle-class parents and their children? What are Black middle-class parents’ strategies for supporting their children …
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€60.48
Stephen J. Ball & Brigitte Darchy-Koechlin: World Yearbook of Education 2015
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites and inequality, focusing particularly on the ways in which established and emergent groups located at the to …
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€66.77
Stephen J. Ball & Brigitte Darchy-Koechlin: World Yearbook of Education 2015
This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on educational elites and inequality, focusing particularly on the ways in which established and emergent groups located at the to …
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€66.71
Stephen Ball: Foucault and Education
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’. Arg …
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€51.36
Stephen Ball: Foucault and Education
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’. Arg …
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€51.58
Stephen Ball: Policy Actors
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 car …
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€51.35
Stephen Ball: Policy Actors
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 car …
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€51.21
Stephen Ball: Governing by Numbers
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 r …
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€55.42
Stephen Ball: Governing by Numbers
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 r …
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€55.05
Stephen J. Ball & Carolina Junemann: Networks, New Governance and Education
The public sector is going through a period of fundamental change. Service delivery, policy making and policy processes are being carried out by new actors and organisations with new interests, metho …
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€37.31
Stephen J Ball & Annette Braun: How Schools Do Policy
Over the last 20 years, international attempts to raise educational standards and improve opportunities for all children have accelerated and proliferated. This has generated a state of constant chan …
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€51.46
Stephen Ball & Ivor F. Goodson: Defining The Curriculum
This book explores some of the major processes involved in the definition of school subject knowledge. Using historical ethnographic methods, the contributors to the collection highlight and examine …
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€63.03
Stephen Ball & Ivor F. Goodson: Defining The Curriculum
This book explores some of the major processes involved in the definition of school subject knowledge. Using historical ethnographic methods, the contributors to the collection highlight and examine …
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€62.56
Stephen J. Ball: The Education Debate
Education policy in England is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly incoherent and it is therefore becoming harder to keep up with, and make sense of, all the changes. This bestselling book …
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€25.99
Stephen J. Ball: Education Debate
Education policy in England is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly incoherent and it is therefore becoming harder to keep up with, and make sense of, all the changes. This bestselling book …
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€84.68
Stephen J. Ball & Bronwen M.A. Jones: Neoliberalism and Education
The ongoing neoliberalisation of education is complex, varied and relentless. It involves increasingly diverse material and structural changes to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and at the same t …
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€50.08
Stephen J. Ball & Bronwen M.A. Jones: Neoliberalism and Education
The ongoing neoliberalisation of education is complex, varied and relentless. It involves increasingly diverse material and structural changes to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and at the same t …
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€50.08
Jefferson Mainardes & Stephen J. Ball: Políticas educacionais
Este livro reúne contribuições de pesquisadores do campo das políticas educacionais sobre temas altamente relevantes: a relação macro e micro na pesquisa de políticas educacionais e curriculares, o p …
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€9.99
Stephen J. Ball: Global Education Inc.
Do private and philanthropic solutions to the problems of education signal the end of state education in itswelfare form?Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies a …
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€54.90
Stephen J Ball & Ivor F Goodson: Teachers’ Lives And Careers
This volume explores the contemporary situation of teachers’ careers and teachers’ lives in the context of falling roles, educational cuts and government demands for fundamental change in educational …
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€60.31
Stephen J Ball & Ivor F Goodson: Teachers’ Lives And Careers
This volume explores the contemporary situation of teachers’ careers and teachers’ lives in the context of falling roles, educational cuts and government demands for fundamental change in educational …
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€60.33
Stephen J. Ball & Jefferson Mainardes: Pesquisa em políticas educacionais
O livro explora questões essenciais para a pesquisa em Política Educacional na atualidade: redes políticas e etnografia de redes, perspectivas teórico-epistemológicas na pesquisa em Política Educacio …
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€12.99
Hugh Bochel & Martin Powell: Conservative Governments and Social Policy
Focusing on the policy approaches of Conservative governments since 2015, this book examines key social policy areas including education, health, housing, employment, children and young people, and m …
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€41.07