The education debate

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Education policy is hard to keep track of ... a problem that this book solves. In this updated edition, Ball examines new areas of focus, including the increased interest of business in education and the impact of austerity and precarity.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ball, Stephen J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2017.
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Policy and politics in the twenty-first century.
Subjects:
Education and state > Great Britain.
Educational evaluation > Great Britain.
Education > Great Britain > Finance.
Education > Aims and objectives > Great Britain.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
Education > Aims and objectives
Education and state
Education > Finance
Educational evaluation
Moral & social purpose of education.
Great Britain
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • THE EDUCATION DEBATE
  • Contents
  • List of tables, figures and boxes
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • Boxes
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction: the Great Education Debate (1976-2016)
  • Policy sociology
  • 1. Key concepts: education policy, economic necessity and education reform
  • The rhetorics of education reform
  • Knowledge economy
  • Globalisation/glocalisation
  • Policy epidemics/policy mobility
  • Policy technologies
  • 2. Class, comprehensives and continuities: a short history of English education policy
  • 1870-1944
  • 1944-76
  • 1976-97: 'The long years of attrition' (Benn, 2011)
  • 1997-2017: Blair and Brown and Cameron and May
  • from a Third Way to a Big Society and meritocracy
  • 'New Labour'/new policies
  • The Coalition: freedom and discipline/reform and restoration
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Policy technologies and The UK Government's Approach to Public Service Reform
  • Top-down performance management
  • Competition and contestability
  • Choice and voice
  • Capability and capacity
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Policy, inequality and advantage
  • Participation and performance
  • Meritocracy and social mobility
  • Parenting
  • Academies and free schools
  • Defending privilege
  • Conclusion
  • 5. A sociology of education policy: past, present and future
  • Dissolutions and conservations
  • Neoliberal education
  • Freedom and democracy
  • New governance
  • References
  • Index.

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