Beachside Comprehensive

Beachside Comprehensive

Author: Stephen J. Ball

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1981-04-16

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 9780521232388

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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, it is an institutional study in the tradition of Colin Lacey's Hightown Grammar and David Hargreaves' Social Relations in a Secondary School, and provides a deep and dynamic portrayal of a school in the process of radical change. Dr Ball raises important questions about the practice of comprehensive education through a detailed examination of the processes of selection and socialsation experienced by two cohorts of pupils moving through the school, one banded and the other taught in mixed-ability classes. This also reveals the way in which teachers confronted the problems of teaching mixed-ability classes and illustrates the enormous gap which existed between the rhetoric and the reality of comprehensive education. The book will be of interest to teachers and students of sociology and education, to school teachers and others concerned about the organisation of schools and educational policy.


Towards A New Education System

Towards A New Education System

Author: Clyde Chitty University of Birmingham.

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-25

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1351538845

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First published in 1989. A provocative study of the radical changes that have taken place in education since 1976. Chitty analyzes the effects of recent legislative proposals on the education system and reveals the contradictions and tensions within New Right thinking.


Towards a New Education System

Towards a New Education System

Author: Clyde Chitty

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781850004493

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Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Education, Politics and the State -- Chapter 1 The Evolution of the Comprehensive School 1944-76 -- Chapter 2 The Comprehensive System Under Attack 1970-76 -- Chapter 3 The Yellow Book, the Ruskin Speech and the Great Debate -- Chapter 4 Towards a National Curriculum: 1976-87 -- Chapter 5 The 'Secret Garden' Invaded: Central Control of the Curriculum, 1976-87 -- Chapter 6 Differentiation and Vocationalization -- Chapter 7 Early Attempts at Privatization: Choice, Competition and the Voucher -- Chapter 8 1987 and Beyond: The New Right Education Offensive -- Bibliography -- Index


The Research Process in Educational Settings (RLE Edu L)

The Research Process in Educational Settings (RLE Edu L)

Author: Robert G Burgess

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-05-04

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1136459987

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This book presents a series of research biographies based on research experiences in the study of educational settings. The main aim is to provide a set of first person accounts on doing research that combine analysis with description. The contributors have been drawn from the disciplines of sociology and educational studies and have all conducted ethnographic work or case studies in a variety of educational settings.


Education Policy and Social Class

Education Policy and Social Class

Author: Stephen J. Ball

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780415363983

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This book brings together in one place Stephen Ball's key writings. Drawing on over 20 years' work, Professor Ball has selected his most seminal work - from education policy and sociology to his work on education and social class.


New Directions in Educational Leadership

New Directions in Educational Leadership

Author: Paul Harling

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-11

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1351041045

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Originally published in 1984. The argument of this book is that the preceding 12 to 15 years saw significant changes in educationalists’ understanding and application of the concepts of leadership, and because of these changes two things happened. One, the relationship between participants changed; and two, policy and practice also changed. The papers in this collection have been specially commissioned or collected together with this thesis in mind. Each of them examines leadership with special reference to one or more aspects, sectors, roles or interests within the educational system of England and Wales.


Sociology

Sociology

Author: James Fulcher

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-03-17

Total Pages: 908

ISBN-13: 0199563756

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'Sociology' is relevant to current teaching and courses dealing with sociology as a living subject and incorporating the classic traditions of the discipline. This new edition has been updated with a range of new case studies and additional chapters.


Thinking with Stephen J. Ball

Thinking with Stephen J. Ball

Author: Maria Tamboukou

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-06-29

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1000599701

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This edited volume explores how Stephen Ball’s work has shaped the field of the sociology of education worldwide. Written by internationally based researchers who are Ball’s former PhD students, it draws on different strands of his work to show what it means to think, write, and do research inspired by Ball’s theory, methodology, and epistemology. The contributions revolve around a wide range of themes including: the ethics of doing educational research, disability studies, the bio-politics of the child’s soul, lived experiences of marginalisation in education, educating migrant and refugee women in the borderlands, and post-Brexit reflections on the Bologna process. Chapters draw on different lines of thought from the corpus of a significant and influential figure in the sociology of education to present, explicate, and discuss a wide range of research projects, themes, theoretical directions, as well as methodological approaches in the field of the sociology of education today. More than celebrating Ball’s scholarship, this volume shows new and innovative directions in the sociology of education. It will be highly relevant reading for researchers, scholars, and students in the sociology of education, educational policy, and politics and educational theory.


Education in England and Wales

Education in England and Wales

Author: Franklin Parker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 1351253840

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Originally published in 1991, this title was begun just before passage of the Education Reform Act of 1988 (ERA 88), which was implemented in the 1990s. This major act along with still-in-force provisions of the 1944 Education Act (with its 17 amendments) comprises the statutes governing education in England and Wales. The study reflects both the criticism and the praise showered on that important legislation, particularly in the Brief History and School Structure sections, and in Chapter 1 with its longer than usual annotations on ERA 88.


Schools Making a Difference

Schools Making a Difference

Author: Martin Thrupp

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Published: 1999-05-16

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0335231411

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Does an effective school really come about through the actions of teachers and school leaders, or does it also require an advantaged student intake? This question reflects a longstanding research debate about whether or not the social class mix of a school's student intake has much effect on individual achievement. Schools Making a Difference: Let's Be Realistic! presents new evidence which suggests that school mix is likely to be important because of the way many school processes are deeply influenced by student intake characteristics. Low socioeconomic schools face numerous intake-related constraints which make them highly resistant to improvement efforts. By suggesting that 'failing' schools are often overwhelmed rather than ineffective, this book provides a sympathetic reappraisal of the performance of teachers and school leaders in such schools. It also offers a critical response to the often unrealistic claims of the school effectiveness and school improvement movement and a fresh critique of market reforms in education.