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Policy Actors Stephen Ball 9780367887117
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Policy 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... -
The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Sociology of Education by Stephen Ball 9780415327763
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Sociology of Education brings together a carefully selected collection of articles and book chapters to reflect enduring trends in the field of Sociology of Education... -
Stephen Ball's contributions to a policy study by Maximiliano Morales 9786207627271
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £33.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786207627271Author Maximiliano MoralesFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Our Knowledge... -
Against School: Thinking Education Differently Stephen Ball 9783031804144
Booksplease Price: £112.12This 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... -
Crisis and Hope: The Educational Hopscotch of Latin America by Stephen Ball 9781138966963
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £23.54This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education, by inviting the reader to understand the complexities, heterogenetics,... -
Crisis and Hope: The Educational Hopscotch of Latin America by Stephen Ball 9780415935357
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £34.09This book seeks to offer the most up-to-date and relevant sample of contemporary research on Latin American education, by inviting the reader to understand the complexities, heterogenetics,... -
Playing Card Divination: Every Card Tells a Story Stephen Ball 9780738764900
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.35Turn a standard deck of playing cards into a colorful divinatory system filled with inspiration, adventure, insight, and advice. In Playing Card Divination, each card from ace through king represents... -
Defending Politics: Bernard Crick at The Political Quarterly Stephen Ball (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9781444351330
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.34A collection of Bernard Crick's writings comprising everything he ever wrote for The Political Quarterly from the late 1950s to 2008 - newly re-edited and with an Introduction, the collection reveals... -
Choice, Pathways and Transitions Post-16: New Youth, New Economies in the Global City Stephen Ball 9780750708609
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £52.08This internationally appealing book is based on a two-year case study of a group of young people as they move through their final year of mandatory schooling and into their first year of post-16... -
Michel Foucault and Education Policy Analysis Stephen Ball (Institute of Education, University College London, UK) 9781138308916
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The 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... -
Global Education Inc.: New Policy Networks and the Neoliberal Imaginary by Stephen J. Ball 9780415684101
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Do 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... -
Dublin Castle and the First Home Rule Crisis: Volume 33: The Political Journal of Sir George Fottrell, 1884-1887 by Stephen Ball
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.38This vivid record of the major crisis of late nineteenth-century British politics comes from the unique perspective of someone who was both a crown official and an active Irish nationalist. It... -
Thinking with Stephen J. Ball: Lines of Flight in Education by Maria Tamboukou 9780367694678
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37This edited volume explores how Stephen Ball's work has shaped the field of the sociology of education worldwide. Written by internationally based researchers who are Ball's former PhD students, it... -
Foucault and Education: Putting Theory to Work by Stephen J. Ball
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Specially 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'... -
Neoliberalism and Early Childhood Education: Markets, Imaginaries and Governance by Peter Moss
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Neoliberalism, with its worldview of competition, choice and calculation, its economisation of everything, and its will to govern has 'sunk its roots deep' into Early Childhood Education and Care... -
Edu.net: Globalisation and Education Policy Mobility Stephen J. Ball (Institute of Education, University College London, UK) 9781138641099
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Edu.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... -
World Yearbook of Education 2015: Elites, Privilege and Excellence: The National and Global Redefinition of Educational Advantage Agnes van Zanten 9781138711204
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £51.59This 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... -
An Ecosystem for Research-Engaged Schools: Reforming Education Through Research David Godfrey 9781138574465
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28Looking at the potential for research-use by educators to improve schools for all young people, An Ecosystem for Research-Engaged Schools presents a range of ground-breaking research and fascinating... -
Teachers' Lives And Careers Stephen J Ball (Institute of Education, University of London, UK) 9781850000297
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This 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... -
The Micro-Politics of the School: Towards a Theory of School Organization Stephen J. Ball (Institute of Education, University of London, UK) 9780415753401
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Stephen 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... -
Crowds in Ireland, c.1720-1920 by Peter Jupp 9780333789902
Booksplease Price: £90.56Although the history of crowds in modern European history has been one of the most hotly debated subjects since E.P. Thompson's pioneering work of the 1960s, the crowd in Irish history has been... -
Education, Capitalism and the Global Crisis by Stephen J. Ball
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.34Education, 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... -
Education, Globalisation and New Times: 21 Years of the Journal of Education Policy by Stephen J. Ball
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.81Education, 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... -
Researching School Experience: Explorations of Teaching and Learning Martyn Hammersley 9780750709149
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94There is a tendency in much educational thinking to view pupils in passive terms, as the material on which schools operate. This damaging view is challenged here. Significant recent research shows... -
Dice Mysteries by Steve Drury 9780244487676
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £79.40Dice Mysteries is a study into the world of dice aimed as a resource for the mystery - psychic entertainer As a hardbound, dust-jacket covered book - it runs at over 580 pages ! It initially delves... -
Hospitality Operations: A Systems Approach by Andrew John Lockwood 9780826448262
Booksplease Price: £46.28Adopting an innovative systems-based approach, the authors provide the reader with both an understanding of particular services and functions within the hospitality industry and an overview of the... -
Making Schools Different: Alternative Approaches to Educating Young People by Kitty te Riele 9781847875303
Booksplease Price: £90.35With a foreword by Professor Stephen Ball What can we do with students who don't succeed in the typical classroom, and what are the alternatives to full-time schooling? With contributions from... -
A Normative Foucauldian: Selected Papers of Mark Olssen by Mark Olssen 9789004464438
Booksplease Price: £68.92Inspired by the writings of Michel Foucault, Olssen's writings traverse philosophy, politics, education, and epistemology. This book comprises a selection of his papers published in academic journals... -
Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education: How the Public Nature of Schooling is Changing by Anna Hogan
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Privatisation and Commercialisation in Public Education asks how publicness is being redefined through the restructuring of nominally public school systems. Over the past few decades, governments... -
Childcare, Choice and Class Practices: Middle Class Parents and their Children Carol Vincent (Institute of Education, University of London, UK) 9780415362177
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Childcare 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... -
Wider Professional Practice in Education and Training by Sasha Pleasance 9781473916180
Booksplease Price: £37.42Developing an understanding of professional practice is essential for anyone training to teach in the further education and skills sector. This go-to guide will give you a clear understanding of the... -
Foucault, Power, and Education by Stephen J. Ball
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66Foucault, 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... -
Equity Issues in Chinese Higher Education Policy: A Case Study of the Enrolment Expansion Policy Hongzhi Zhang 9781032358352
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54Investigating the highly influential enrolment expansion policy in Chinese higher education, this book outlines how educational equity issues were understood and addressed in the formulation and... -
Benign Violence: Education in and beyond the Age of Reason by Ansgar Allen 9781137272850
Booksplease Price: £90.56Education is a violent act, yet this violence is concealed by its good intent. Education presents itself as a distinctly improving, enabling practice. Even its most radical critics assume that... -
Governing by Numbers: Education, governance, and the tyranny of numbers by Stephen J. Ball 9780367109387
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Social 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... -
Sociology of Education Today by Jack Demaine 9780333778296
Booksplease Price: £46.74It is almost twenty years since Macmillan published Jack Demaine's Contemporary Theories in the Sociology of Education . This completely new book brings together important recent work of the most... -
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Education plc: Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education by Stephen J. Ball 9780415399418 [USED COPY]
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £2.93Is 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... -
Education plc: Understanding Private Sector Participation in Public Sector Education by Stephen J. Ball
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £46.94Is 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... -
The education debate by Stephen J. Ball 9781447306887
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.99Education is a continuing key political issue for the UK government. It is seen as a crucial factor in ensuring economic productivity and competitiveness, in generating social mobility and tackling... -
Education in Britain: 1944 to the Present Ken Jones (Keele University) 9780745663210
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £53.30In the decades after 1944 the four nations of Britain shared a common educational programme. By 2015, this programme had fragmented: the patterns of schooling and higher education in Wales, Scotland,...