Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-286) and index.
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Introduction : the problem of policy -- Policy sociology and critical social research : a personal review of recent education policy and policy research -- Discipline and chaos : the new right and discourses of derision -- What is policy? : texts, trajectories, and toolboxes -- Educational studies, policy entrepreneurship, and social theory -- Big policies/small world : an introduction to international perspectives in education policy -- Ethics, self interest and the market form in education -- Good school/bad school : paradox and fabrication -- Educational reform, market concepts, and ethical re-tooling -- Standards in education : privatisation, profit and values -- The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity -- Circuits of schooling : a sociological exploration of parental choice of school in social class contexts -- Space, work, and the 'new urban economies' -- Social justice in the head : are we all libertarians now? -- 'Ethnic choosing' : minority ethnic students, social class and higher education choice -- 'I heard it on the grapevine' : 'hot' knowledge and school choice -- The risks of social reproduction : the middle class and education markets.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book brings together in one place Stephen Ball's key writings. Drawing on over 20 years' work, Professor Ball has selected his most seminal work - from education policy and sociology to his work on education and social class.