TY - BOOK AU - Ball,Stephen J. TI - Education policy and social class: the selected works of Stephen J. Ball T2 - World library of educationalists series SN - 0415363977 (hbk.) PY - 2006/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Education and state KW - Great Britain KW - Educational sociology KW - Educational equalization KW - Social classes N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [278]-286) and index; Introduction : the problem of policy -- Policy sociology and critical social research : a personal review of recent education policy and policy research -- Discipline and chaos : the new right and discourses of derision -- What is policy? : texts, trajectories, and toolboxes -- Educational studies, policy entrepreneurship, and social theory -- Big policies/small world : an introduction to international perspectives in education policy -- Ethics, self interest and the market form in education -- Good school/bad school : paradox and fabrication -- Educational reform, market concepts, and ethical re-tooling -- Standards in education : privatisation, profit and values -- The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity -- Circuits of schooling : a sociological exploration of parental choice of school in social class contexts -- Space, work, and the'new urban economies' -- Social justice in the head : are we all libertarians now? --'Ethnic choosing' : minority ethnic students, social class and higher education choice --'I heard it on the grapevine' :'hot' knowledge and school choice -- The risks of social reproduction : the middle class and education markets UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip059/2005007302.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0708/2005007302-d.html ER -