¿Qué sujetos nos estamos volviendo cuando nuestra vida parece (re)componerse entre bytes de información? ¿Qué escuela se configura entre algoritmos? ¿Toda educación posible ocurrirá de aquí...
Education policy in England is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly incoherent and it is therefore becoming harder to keep up with, and make sense of, all the changes. This bestselling book looks at the role of the UK as a social laboratory for...
This important account of the experiences of schooling of the pupils in a single comprehensive school is based on three years' field work which Stephen J. Ball spent as participant observer at 'Beachside Comprehensive'. First published in 1981,...
The public sector is going through a period of fundamental change. Service delivery, policy making and policy processes are being carried out by new actors and organisations with new interests, methods and discourses, related to the emergence of new forms...
Over the last 20 years, international attempts to raise educational standards and improve opportunities for all children have accelerated and proliferated. This has generated a state of constant change and an unrelenting flood of initiatives, changes and...
Bringing together twenty years of research and writing, this book provides an overview of Stephen Balls 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...
This internationally appealing book is based on a two-year case study of a group of young people as they move through their final year of mandatory schooling and into their first year of post-16 experience. It looks at their choices, the market behaviour...