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1. Inside Journal Publishing

   By Stephen Ball

   Inside Journal Publishing examines what journals are, in contrast to books and magazines, and looks at the whole process of publishing journals. Inside Journal Publishing considers journals from a twenty-first century business perspective, as well as exploring the importance of journals...

   To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
2. Foucault, Power, and Education

   By Stephen J. Ball

   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...

   Published December 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Social Accounting and Public Management

   Accountability for the Public Good

   Edited by Stephen P. Osborne, Amanda Ball

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   Social accounting as a discipline has challenged the methodology and focus of the larger field of accounting over the last 50 years. More recently it has taken on greater significance for other subjects as well, addressing issues for public policy and management more broadly. These include the...

   Published July 10th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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 its ‘welfare’ form? Education policy is being reformed and re-worked on a global scale. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision of ‘best practice’ based on the methods...

   Published February 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. Foucault and Education

   Disciplines and Knowledge

   Edited by Stephen J. Ball

   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, complex technologies of disciplinary control where power and knowledge are crucial. Original and...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. Education, Capitalism and the Global Crisis

   Edited by Stephen Ball, Meg Maguire, Ivor Goodson

   Education, Capitalism and the Global Crisis focuses on Andrew Gamble’s book The Spectre at the Feast and its analysis of the background to, conduct of, and possible consequences and opportunities brought about by, the current global economic crisis. The views expressed represent a range of...

   Published January 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. 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 be ‘implemented’ by...

   Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
8. Defining The Curriculum

   Histories and Ethnographies

   Edited by Ivor F. Goodson, Stephen Ball

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   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 some of the factors involved at national, institutional and classroom levels in the making of school...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Micro-Politics of the School

   Towards a Theory of School Organization

   By Stephen J. Ball

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   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 concerns of teachers and current problems facing schools. In doing so he raises question about the...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
10. Politics and Policy Making in Education

    Explorations in Sociology

    By Stephen J. Ball

    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...

    Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge