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This topical book uses network analysis and interviews with key actors to address the changes in education, with a focus on education and the role of new philanthropy.

This extensively updated fourth edition by the key author in the field will maintain its place as the most important text on education policy and makes essential reading for all students and anyone interested in education policy more generally.

Modern state education was essentially formed around the needs and interests of the middle class. The middle classes are currently very much at the center of all politicians' electoral concerns. Nevertheless sociological and educational research has tended to neglect the middle class. "Class Strategies and the Education Market" examines the ways in which the middle classes maintain and improve their social advantages in and through education. ...

This collection of papers, uses Foucault to analyse, destablise and re-claim educational problems.

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Is the privatisation of state education defendable? Did the public sector ever provide a fair education for all learners? This work provides a comprehensive, analytic and empirical account of the privatisation of education. It is aimed at those researching and studying in the fields of social policy, policy analysis, and others.

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Offers an account of contemporary trends in education reform and public sector governance, focusing on the increasing role of business and philanthropy in education service delivery and education policy and the emergence of new forms of `network¿ governance.

Based on a long term qualitative study of four 'ordinary' secondary schools, and working on the interface of theory with data, this book explores how schools enact, rather than implement policy.

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.

Edu.net builds upon, and extends, a series of research studies of education policy networks and global policy mobilities.

This topical book uses network analysis and interviews with key actors to address the changes in education, with a focus on education and the role of new philanthropy.

Based on a long term qualitative study of four 'ordinary' secondary schools, and working on the interface of theory with data, this book explores how schools enact, rather than implement policy.

Foucault, 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 of the ways Foucault has been placed in relation to educational questions or questions about education, Ball highlights the relationships between Foucault's concepts and methods, and educational research and analysis. An introductory chapter offers ...

Bringing together twenty years of research and writing, this book provides an overview of Stephen Balla (TM)s career and shows not only the development of his most important ideas but also the long-lasting contributions he has made to the field of educational policy analysis. This volume contains sixteen key essays divided into three sections: perspectives on policy research policy technologies and policy analysis social class and education po...

Bringing together twenty years of research and writing, this book provides an overview of Stephen Balla (TM)s career and shows not only the development of his most important ideas but also the long-lasting contributions he has made to the field of educational policy analysis. This volume contains sixteen key essays divided into three sections: perspectives on policy research policy technologies and policy analysis social class and education po...

Do 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. Policies are flowing and converging to produce a singular vision of 'best practice' based on the methods and tenets of the 'neo-liberal imaginary'. Philanthropy, business and the governments are coming together in new networks and sites of policy outside...