Thinking with Stephen J. Ball: Lines of Flight in Education

by Maria Tamboukou (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367694678
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/29/2024
Series:	Routledge Research in Education
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Maria Tamboukou is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of East London, UK, and holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2022–2025).

Table of Contents

Part I: Theoretical and epistemological diffractions 1. Doing Sociology of Education differently: An essay about a study on the educational trajectories of youths from the villas of Buenos Aires 2. Character as calculable: The performative and biopolitical management of the child’s soul 3. Knowledge exchange in the social sciences: Knowledge ecosystems, networks, and the social enterprising of research Part II: Thinking and acting in the margins 4. Choice, Pathways and Transitions 20 years on 5. Trapped in educational marginalisation: ‘I just drifted away’ 6. Borderlands and radical hope: Beyond academic philanthropy Part III: Educational policies 7. Education policy; from social and consensual to self-interested and individual 8. Policy and the ethics of doing disability: Working within and beyond an inclusive norm in the English higher education 9. The Bologna Process: A policy discourse evolution Part IV: Reflections 10. Passion and education: A reflection on working with Stephen J. Ball 11. The exclusionary every day: A journey in London schools, struggling to include all children in their primary school education