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  • Foucault as Educator

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    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 of what Allen (2014) calls benign violence – which operates through mundane, quotidian disciplinary technologies and expert knowledges which together construct a ‘pedagogical machine’. Second, through ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Politics and Policy Making in Education

    Explorations in Sociology

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: 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 Education Reform Act, its origins, purposes and effects, and it looks behind the scenes at the priorities of the politicians, civil servants and government advisers who were influential in making changes. ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Edu.net

    Globalisation and Education Policy Mobility

    by Stephen J. Ball, Carolina Junemann, Diego Santori ...
    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 ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Against School

    Thinking Education Differently

    by Stephen J. Ball, Jordi Collet-Sabé ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book invites the reader to think education against, beyond and without the school and its paraphernalia. To think about ‘education’, rather than schooling, and what kind of education is relevant to and needed now in the complex, difficult and dangerous world we live in. That invitation means testing our limits, questioning and changing ourselves and thinking the practice of education ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Networks, New Governance and Education

    by Stephen J. Ball, Carolina Junemann ...
    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, methods and discourses, related to the emergence of new forms of governance.This timely book from bestselling author Stephen Ball and Carolina Junemann uses network analysis and interviews with key actors ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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    The Hans Christian Andersen Treasury: Bedtime Fairytales

    by H.C. Andersen ...
    Narrated by Joan Collins, Roger Moore, Joanna Lumley, David Walliams, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Ball, Michael Caine, Stephen Fry, Emma Samms, Paul McKenna, Ewan McGregor ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 21 min

    The most beloved fairy tales of Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen, narrated by the very best of British stage and screen talent. Perfect for bedtime, the long car journey or rainy afternoons at home, let Andersen delight and enchant children (and adults) of all ages with characters that stand the test of time.The Princess and the Pea and the Steadfast Tin Soldier by Sir Roger MooreThe Little ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Education Debate

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Policy and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
    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 looks at the role of the UK as a social laboratory for global education policy. Covering key concepts, it then examines new areas, including:• Global education policy mobility• Edu-business and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Global Education Inc.

    New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    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 are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision ofbest practice based on the methods and tenets of theneo-liberal imaginary. Philanthro ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Education plc

    Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    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 empirical account of the privatisation of education. He questions the kind of future we want for education and what role privatisation and the private sector may have in that future. Using policy sociology to ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • How Schools Do Policy

    Policy Enactments in Secondary Schools

    by Stephen J Ball, Meg Maguire, Annette Braun ...
    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 change and an unrelenting flood of initiatives, changes and reforms that need to beimplemented by schools. In response to this, a great deal of attentio ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • Class Strategies and the Education Market

    The Middle Classes and Social Advantage

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    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 interviews with parents and children, this book identifies key moments of decision making in the construction of the educational trajectories of middle class children. Stephen J. Ball organises his analysis ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Foucault, Power, and Education

    by Stephen J. Ball ...
    Series series Routledge Key Ideas in 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 of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about education, Ball highlights the relationships between Foucault’s concepts and methods, and educational ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD