The Routledgefalmer Reader in Education Policy and Politics

This Reader brings together a wide range of material to present an international perspective on topical issues in educational policy and politics today. Focusing on the enduring trends in this field, this lively and informative Reader provides broad coverage of the field and includes all the crucial topics. With an emphasis on new pieces that deal with issues relevant to the immediate real world, this book represents the research and views of some of the most respected authors in the field today. Stephen Ball and Carol Vincent also include a specially written introduction which provides a much-needed context to role of politics in the current educational climate. Students of politics and education policy and politics will find this Reader an important route map to further reading and understanding, as well as an overview of the most important issues surrounding the subject.

ISBN 041534574X   Pages 288 ISBN13 9780415345743 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 440 Imprint Routledge Falmer   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title RoutledgeFalmer Readers in Education Publication date 26 Oct 2006   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress LC71   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 379   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly

		Introduction : reading education policy and politics by Bob Lingard and Jenny Ozga		1
1		Postmodernity and revisioning the political by Anna Yeatman		11
2		Debating globalization and education after September 11 by Fazal Rizvi		23
3		Big policies/small world : an introduction to international perspectives in education policy by Stephen J. Ball		36
4		Specifying globalization effects on national policy : a focus on the mechanisms by Roger Dale		48
5		Globalisation, education policy and politics by Jenny Ozga and Bob Lingard		65
6		After the marketplace : evidence, social science and educational research by Allan Luke		85
7		Globalization and educational policymaking : a case study by Sandra Taylor and Miriam Henry		101
8		Swedish, European, global : the transformation of the Swedish welfare state by Lisbeth Lundahl		117
9		National and global competition in higher education by Simon Marginson		131
10		Education, nation states and the globalization of information networks by Neil Selwyn and Phillip Brown		154
11		Unravelling a 'spun' policy : a care study of the constitutive role of 'spin' in the education policy process by Sharon Gewirtz and Marny Dickson and Sally Power		178
12		Public accountability in the age of neo-liberal governance by Stewart Ranson		198
13		Realising policy : the who and how of policy production by Trevor Gale		220
14		Politics of social partnerships : a framework for theorizing by Terri Seddon and Stephen Billett and Allie Clemans		236
15		Bourdieu as education policy analyst and expert : a rich but ambiguous legacy by Agnes van Zanten		254

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