The Education Debate Stephen J Ball by Stephen J Ball 9781847423139, 9781861349200, 1847423132, 1861349203 instant download after payment.

Stephen Ball provides a substantive account of current education policy trends and offers a way to make sense of what is happening to our experience of education, as learners, as teachers, as parents and as citizens.
Content: The education debate; Contents; List of tables, figures and boxes; List of abbreviations; About the author; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: education education education policy; Policy sociology; 1. Introduction to key concepts: education policy, economic necessity and public service reform; 2. Class, comprehensives and continuities: a short history of English education policy; 3. Current policy models and The UK government's approach to public service reform; 4. Current key issues: forms of policy and forms of equity; 5. A sociology of education policy: past, present and future.
Abstract: Guides readers through the flood of government initiatives and policies, including beacon Schools, the academies programme, parental choice, foundation schools, faith schools and teaching standards.