Education, Globalisation and New Times: 21 Years of the Journal of Education Policy / Edition 1

by Stephen J. Ball, Ivor F. Goodson, Meg Maguire

Overview

Education, 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 scholars in the field, these seminal papers cover a variety of subjects, sectors and levels of education, focused around the following major themes:

• education, globalisation and new times
• policy theory and method
• policy and equity.

Compiled by the journal's editors, Stephen Ball, Ivor Goodson and Meg Maguire, the book illustrates the development of the field of education policy studies, and the specially written Introduction contextualises the selection, whilst introducing students to the main issues and current thinking in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415590785
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/17/2010
Series:	Education Heritage
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stephen J. Ball is Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Ivor F. Goodson is Professor of Learning Theory at the University of Brighton, UK.

Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education at King’s College London, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. New Education In New Times 2. Localization/Globalization and the Midwife State 3. Education, Nation States and the Globalization of Information Networks 4. The Lessons of International Education Reform 5. Specifying Globalization Effects on National Policy 6. Educational Change and New Cleavages Between Head Teachers, Teachers and Parents 7. In Search of Structure 8. Subjected to Review: Engendering Quality and Power in Higher Education 9. Bodies are Dangerous 10 Policy Archaeology 11. Critical Policy Sociology 12. The Construction and Deconstruction of Educational Policy Documents 13. Community, Philosophy and Education Policy 14. Towards a View of Policy Analysis as Practical Reason 15. Critical Inter/Multicultural Education and the Process of Transnationalisation 16. Macroecological Reforms as a Strategy for Reducing Educational Risks Associated with Poverty 17. Renovating Educational Identites: Policy, Space and Urban Renewal 18. Power, Pedagogy and Persuasion 19. Framing Justice 20. Progress at School and School Effectiveness 21. Equity in Educational Policy