Education Reform: A Critical and Post-structural ApproachThis book builds upon Stephen J. Ball's previous work in the field of education policy analysis. It subjects the ongoing reforms in UK education to a rigorous critical interrogation. It takes as its main concerns the introduction of market forces, managerialism and the national curriculum into the organization of schools and the work of teachers. The author argues that these reforms are combining to fundamentally reconstruct the work of teaching, to generate and ramify multiple inequalities and to destroy civic virtue in education. The effects of the market and management are not technical and neutral but are essentially political and moral. The reforms taking place in the UK are both a form of cultural and social engineering and an attempt to recreate a fantasy education based upon myths of national identity, consensus and glory. The analysis is founded within policy sociology and employ both ethnographic and post-structuralist methods. |
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Contents
What is policy? Texts trajectories and toolboxes | 14 |
Education Majorism and the curriculum of the dead | 28 |
Education policy power relations and teachers work | 48 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Education Reform: A Critical and Post-structural Approach |
| Author | Stephen J. Ball |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Open University Press, 1994 |
| ISBN | 0335192734, 9780335192731 |
| Length | 164 pages |
| Subjects | › Education / General |
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