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

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...