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"Stephen Ball provides the intellectual resources for understanding how education policy is produced, what it seeks to do and what its effects are. Theoretically and empirically adroit, it is essential reading for all those needing to understand education policy and politics. --Bob Lingard, Andrew Bell Professor of Education, The University of Edinburgh
"The Education Debate is a tour de force not only for its authority and penetration but also......its accessibility." Roger Brown in Higher Education Review
"His introduction to key concepts should be required reading both for those engaged in policy making processes and those seeking to influence change in education." Rob Berkeley, Runnymede Bulletin
"Insightful and wholly accessible and contributes to broader debates about education policy, initiatives and economic imperatives found across public services." Critical Social Policy
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Tony Blair's 1996 pre-election speech put 'education, education, education' firmly at the centre of the policy stage. Education has since become a key political issue and a major focus of media attention. It is also seen as a crucial factor in ensuring economic productivity and competitiveness. But whose interests are at the centre of this shift in education policy? And how could things be if we thought about education differently? In this enthralling book, Stephen J. Ball guides us through the flood of government initiatives and policies that have been introduced over the past 20 years, including beacon Schools, the academies programme, parental choice, foundation schools, faith schools and teaching standards. He looks at the politics of these policy interventions and how they have changed the face of education, 'joining up' policy within a broader framework of initiatives, turning children into 'learners' and parents into 'consumers'. Ball's sociological approach to analysing and making sense of current policies and ideas around education uncovers issues of class, choice, globalisation, equality and citizenship, as well as the conflicting needs of children and families on the one hand and the economy and the state on the other.
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
This chapter provides the groundwork for the analysis and presentation of policy in the book as a whole and introduces topics that are taken up more fully or in more specific ways later. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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