Stephan Ball

Professor Stephen J Ball, PhD, FRSA, AcSS

Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education EPRU, Policy Studies,

Institute of Education University of London 59 Gordon Square London WC1H-ONT UK

Date of Birth: 21.1.1950 Married/No children

Academic Qualifications/Previous Appointments

1972     B.A. (Hons) Sociology, University of Essex      
1973
 
1978     M.A. (Sociological Studies) University of Sussex
D. Phil. University of Sussex
2003     Doctor honoris causa University of Turku, Finland
1975-1985     Lecturer in Education, University of Sussex
1985-1988
 
1988-1989     Lecturer in the Sociology of Education, King's College, London.
Reader in the Sociology of Education,
 
1989-2001     University of London.
Professor of Education, King's College
 
1997-2001     London
Director, Centre for Public Policy Research,      
Kings
 
1998     College London
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts      
2000-     Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences      

2001-2004         Director Education Policy Research Unit, University of London, Insitute of Education

Other Professional activities:

1976-1978         Member and Chairman, British Sociological Association, Teaching and Programmes Committee.

1975-1979         Member, Association for the Teaching of Social Sciences, Sussex Branch Committee.

1978-1980         Research Associate, Social Science Research Council funded Educational Case Records Project, Centre for Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia. Director: Professor Lawrence Stenhouse.

1981-1984         Course Team Consultant, Open University Course E205.

1982-1983         Academic Consultant, BBC/Open University television programme "Organizing to

Learn".

1983-1986         English Correspondent, International Mother-Tongue Education Network.

1983-1987         Series Editor "Issues in Education and Training", Falmer Press.

1983-1985         Governor, Elm Grove Middle School, Brighton.

1984                     Consultant Case Study Worker, Consultancy in Education Project, University of Queensland.

1984-1986         Co-Director, SREB (Southern Regional Examination Board) funded "CVPE-Pilot School" Research Project.

1985-                   Managing Editor, Journal of Education Policy.

1985-                   Abstractor, Sociology of Education Abstracts.

1985                     Tutor on the ESRC funded summer school 'Qualitative Methods in Educational Research', University of Warwick

1986                     Series Editor "Explorations in Ethnography".

1986                     (Sept-Oct) Visiting Scholar, Institute of Educational Research, University of Stockholm.

1986-90              Member of the Advisory Board: Research Papers in Education.

1987-96              British Regional Editor: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.

1987                     Visiting Summer School Tutor, Faculty of Education,University of Western Ontario.

1988-92              External Examiner, MA EPDM, University of Sussex.

1988-92              External Examiner, B.Ed course in sociology of education, University of Warwick.

1989-1990         Adviser to the NUT Executive on the National Curriculum.

1991                      (Feb-April) Visiting Scholar: School of Education, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

1991                      (June) Visiting Scholar, Dept of Education, Uppsala University, Sweden

1992-93              Contributions to BBC Radio programmes: Third Ear, File on Four, and PM.

1994                     (August)VisitingFellow Tokyo Metropolitan University

1995                     Visiting Lecturer, Volda College, Norway Consultant and contributor BBC Television series New Jerusalem: The Welfare State.

Contributions to BBC Radio; PM, Analysis, Viva Radio, Sunrise Radio, etc.

1995-99              Member of ESRC Research Grants Board 1996-          Fellow Royal Society of Arts

1997                     Visiting Professor, School of Social and Policy Studies in Education, University of Sydney

1998                     Visiting Scholar Havens Centre for Social Structure and Social Change, University of Madison-Wisconsin

1998                     Wei Lun Visiting Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong

1999                     Visiting Professor, School of Education, University of Western Australia

2000-                   Visiting Professor, School of Education, Universidad de San Andres, Buenos Aires

Nominated by BERA to Academy of Social Sciences 2000-     Member of Advisory Committee of ESRC Qualidata Centre

Editorial Board member of following Journals:

British Journal of Sociology of Education, International Journal of Inclusive Education, Discourse, Hong Kong Journal of Education, British Journal of In-service Education, Sociology of Education Abstracts, Australian Journal of Education, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Social Psychology of Education, Forum For Education, Education Today and Tommorrow, International Journal of Leadership in Education, Education et Societies. London Education Review

Publications

BOOKS

Authored

(1981) Ball, S.J.Beachside Comprehensive: A case study of secondary schooling, Cambridge University Press.

(1986) Ball, S. J. Sociology in Focus - Education, London, Longmans.

(1987) Ball, S.J. The Micro-Politics of the School: Towards a theory of school organization, London, Methuen. London, Routledge. (SCSE annual book prize 'Best book on education')

(1990) Ball, S.J. Politics and Policymaking in Education: explorations in policy sociology, London Routledge. (republished in Chinese 2003 East China Normal University Press)

(1992) Bowe, R. and Ball, S.J. with Gold, A. Reforming Education and Changing schools: case studies in policy sociology, London, Routledge.

(1994) Ball, S.J. Education Reform: A Critical and Post-Structural Approach, Buckingham, Open University Press. (republished in Chinese 2003 East China Normal University Press)

(1995) Gewirtz, S., Ball, S.J. and Bowe, R. Markets Choice and Equity in Education, Buckingham, Open University Press.

(1996) Radnor, H. and Ball, S.J. Local Education Authorities: Accountability and Control, Stoke-on-Trent, Trentham Books.

(2000) Ball, S.J., Maguire, M.M. and Macrae, S. Choices, Pathways and Transitions Post-16: New Youth, New Economies in the Global City. London, RoutledgeFalmer

(2003) Ball, S. J. Class Strategies and the Education Market: the middle class and social advantage. London, RoutledgeFalmer.

Edited

(1984) Ball S. J. (ed) Comprehensive Schooling: a reader, Lewes, Falmer Press.

(1984) Goodson, I. F. and Ball, S. J. (eds) Defining the Curriculum: Histories and Ethnographies, Lewes, Falmer Press.

(1985) Ball, S. J. and Goodson, I. F. (eds) Teachers' Lives and Careers, Lewes, Falmer Press.

(1988) Green, T. and Ball, S. J. (eds) Inequality and Progress in Comprehensive Education: A Reconsideration for the 1980s, London, Routledge.

(1989) Ball, S. J. and Larsson, S. (eds) The Struggle for Democratic Education: Equality and Participation in Sweden, Lewes, Falmer Press.

(1990) Ball, S.J. (ed) Foucault and Education, London, Routledge (also published in Spanish; (1993) Foucaulty la educacion, Madrid Paideia/Morata; Polish (1994) Foucault i Edukacja, Kracow, Impuls. and Japanese (1999)

(2000) Ball, S.J. (ed) Sociology of Education: Major Themes. Vol.1 Theories and Methods; Vol. 2 Inequalities and Oppressions; Vol. 3 Institutions and Processes; Vol. 4 Politics and Policies, London, RoutledgeFalmer

(2003) Ball, S.J., G. Fischman, and S. Gvirtz (Eds) Crisis and Hope: the Educational Hopscotch of Latin America, New York, Routledge

(2003) Tamboukou, M. and S.J. Ball (Eds) Dangerous Encounters: Genealogy and Ethnography, New York, Peter Lang.

(2004) Ball, S.J. (Ed) The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Sociology of Education, London, RoutledgeFalmer

Published Articles in refereed journals

(1980) Ball, S. J. "Mixed-ability teaching: the Worksheet Method", British Journal of Educational Technology, Jan-Feb., Vol. 22, No. 1.

(1981) Ball, S. J. "The Sociology of Education in Developing Societies: a review essay", British Journal of Sociology of Education, Vol. 2, No. 3.

(1981) Ball, S. J. "Continuity and Conflict in Comprehensive Schooling", New Universities Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 2, Spring.

(1981) Ball, S. J. "Doing Teaching: a phenomenological analysis of teacher-pupil relations", Reflections: Essays in Phenomenology, Vol. 2, No. 1, Winter, pp. 54-69.

(1982) Ball, S. J. "Competition and Conflict in the Teaching of English: a Socio-Historical Analysis", Journal of Curriculum Studies, Vol. 13, No. 4.

(1982) Ball, S. J. "A Reply to Torode", Reflections: Essays in Phenomenology, Winter/Spring, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 30-33.

(1983) Ball, S. J. "Imperialism, Social Control and the Colonial Curriculum in Africa", Journal of Curriculum Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 237-63.

(1987) Ball, S. J. "Großbrittanien: Im Konflikt von Erzienhungs- knozepten", Der Deutschunterricht, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 45-52.

(1988) Ball, S. J. "Staff Relations During the Teachers' Industrial Action: context, conflict and proletarianisation", British Journal of Sociology of Education, 9, 3, pp. 289-306.

(1990) Ball, S.J. "Putting Politics back into Micropolitics: a response to R.G. Townsend, Curriculum Inquiry, 20 (2), pp.225-9.

(1990) Ball, S. J. "Self Doubt and Soft Data: Social and Technical Trajectories in Ethnographic Fieldwork", in Allen, J. B. and Goetz, J. (eds) Qualitative Research in Education: Teaching and Learning Qualitative Traditions, College of Education, University of Georgia. Also in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Vol. 3. No. 2. pp. 157-72, and reprinted in Hammersley, M. (ed) Educational Research Vol. 1, London, Paul Chapman, (1993).

(1990) Ball, S.J. "The Sociological Implications of the Education Reform Act; Review Essay" British Journal of Sociology of Education, 11 (4), pp. 485-91.

(1990) Ball, S.J. "Markets, Inequality and Urban Schooling", Urban Review, 22 (2) pp.85-100

(1991) Ball, S.J. and Bowe, R. 'When the garment gapes': Policy and Ethnography as Process and Practice, Habitus, 1 (1), pp. 55-64.

(1992) Ball, S.J. and Bowe, R."Subject Departments and the 'implementation' of National Curriculum Policy", Journal of Curriculum Studies, 24 (2), pp.97-115

(1992) Ball, S.J. and Bowe, R. "Education, Markets and Professionalism: some reflections on recent policy developments in England and Wales, Melbourne Studies in Education, 1992, pp.56-62.

(1992) Ball, S.J. "Lar Restauration Neo-Liberale et le systeme d'enseignement en Grand-Bretagne", Sociales Critiques, 3-4, pp.153-62.

(1993) Ball, S.J. "Education Markets, Choice and Social Class: the market as a class strategy in the UK and US", British Journal of Sociology of Education, 14 (1), pp. 3-19.

(1993) Ball, S.J. “Education Policy, Power Relations and Teachers' Work.” British Journal of Educational Studies 41 (2), 106-121.

(1993) Ball, S.J.“Education, Majorism and the Curriculum of the Dead.” Curriculum Studies 1 (2).195-214. (also published in Socjologia wychowania X11, Acta Universitatis Nicolai Copernici, Torun 1994)

(1993) Ball S.J. “What is Policy? Texts, Trajectories and Toolboxes.” Discourse 13 (2), 10-17.

(1993) Gewirtz, S., Ball, S.J. and Bowe, R. “Values and Ethics in the Education Market Place: the case of Northwark Park”, International Studies in Sociology of Education, 3 (2), 233-54.

(1994) Gewirtz, S., Ball, S.J. and Bowe, R. "Parents, Privilege and the Education Marketplace" Research Papers in Education 9 (1), 3-30

(1994) Bowe, R., Ball, S.J. and Gewirtz, S. "Captured by the Discourse? Issues and Concerns in Researching Parental choice"British Journal of Sociology of Education, 14 (1), 63-79

(1994) Bowe, R., Ball, S.J., and Gewirtz, S. "Parental choice, Consumption and Social Theory: The Operation of Micro-Markets in Education", British Journal of Educational Studies, 42 (1), 38-52

(1994) Cribb, A., Bignold, S. and Ball, S.J. "Linking the Parts: an exemplar of philosophical and practical issues in holistic nursing", Journal of Advanced Nursing, 20, 233-238

(1994) Ball, S.J., Bowe, R. and Gewirtz, S. "Competitive Schooling: Values, Ethics and Cultural Engineering", Journal of Curriculum and Supervision 9 (4), 350-367

(1994) Ball, S.J. "Visions, Costs and Commonsense: Whatever happened to the National Commission on Education?", The Political Quarterly, 65 (3), 337-340

(1994) Maguire, M. and Ball, S.J. "Researching Politics and the Politics of Research: recent qualitative studies in the UK", International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 7 (3), 269-86

(1994) Maguire, M. and Ball, S.J. "Discourses of Education Reform in the UK and USA and the work of Teachers", British Journal of In-Service Education, 20 (1): 5-16

(1994) Ball, S.J. "What is criticism? A Continuing Conversation? A Rejoinder to Miriam Henry" Discourse, 14 (2) 108-10

(1995) Batteson, C. and Ball, S. J. "Autobiographies and Interviews as Means of 'Access' to Elite policy making in Education", British Journal of Educational Studies 43 (2), 201-216.

(1995) Herring, R., Wilson-Barnett, J. and Ball, S.J. "The Role of Macmillan Nurse Tutors: an interview study with post-holders", Journal of Palliative Nursing, 1 (4) 217-225.

(1995) Bignold, S., Cribb, A. and Ball, S.J. "Befriending the Family: an exploration of a nurse-client relationship", Health and Social Care in the Community (3), 173-180.

(1995) Ball, S.J., Bowe, S.J. and Gewirtz, S. "Circuits of schooling: a sociological exploration of parental choice of school in social class contexts", Sociological Review, (43) 1, 52-78.

(1995) Ball, S.J. "Parents, schools and markets: The Repositioning of youth in UK Education" Youth: Nordic Journal of Youth Research (3) 3, 68-79.

(1995) Ball, S.J. "Intellectuals or Technicians? The Urgent Role of Theory in Educational Studies", British Journal of Educational Studies, (43) 3, 225-271

(1996) Ball, S.J. , Bowe, R. and Gewirtz, S. "School Choice, social class and distinction: the realisation of social advantage in education" Journal of Education Policy (11) 3, 89-113

(1996) Bowe, R., Ball, S.J. and Gewirtz, S. "La Eleccion de los padres, el consumo y teoria social: functionamiento do los micromercados en la educacion",Proquesta Educativa 14, August. Flasco/Ediciones Novedades Educativas.

(1996) Ball, S.J. and Gewirtz, S. "Education Markets, School Competition and Parental Choice in the UK: A Report of Research Findings", International Journal of Educational Reform, (5) 2, 152-58

(1997) Ball S.J. "On the cusp: parents choosing between state and private schools" International Journal of Inclusive Education (1) 1, 1-17

(1997) Ball, S.J. and Gewirtz, S. "Girls and the Education Market" Gender and Education, 9 (2), 207-222

(1997) Reay, D. and Ball, S. J. "Spoilt for Choice: the working class and education markets" Oxford Review of Education, (23) 1, 89-101

(1997) Ball, S.J. "Policy Sociology and Critical Social Research: a personal review of recent education policy and policy research" British Education Research Journal, 23 (3), 257-274

(1997) Radnor, H., Ball, S.J. and Vincent, C. "Whither democratic accountability? An investigation into teachers' perspectives on accountability in the 1990s with reference to their relationships with their LEAs and governors", Research Papers in Education, 12 (2), 205-222

(1997) Ball, S. J. "Good school/Bad school: paradox and fabrication" British Journal of Sociology of Education, 18 (3), 317-336

(1997) Ball, S.J. and Gewirtz, S. "Is research Possible? Rejoinder to Tooley's 'On School Choice and Social Class'" British Journal of Sociology of Education, 18 (4), 575-586

(1997) Macrae, S., Maguire, M. and Ball, S.J. "Whose Learning Society? A tentative deconstruction", Journal of Education Policy, 12 (6), 499-510

(1998) Radnor, H., Ball, S.J. and Vincent, C. "Local Educational Governance, Accountability and Democracy in the United Kingdom" Education Policy, 12 (1&2), 124-137

(1998) Reay, D., Bignold, S., Ball, S.J. and Cribb, A. "'He just had a different way of showing it': gender dynamics in families coping with childhood cancer", Journal of Gender Studies, 7 (1), 39-52

(1998) Ball, S.J. and Van Zanten, A. "Logiques de marche et ethiques contexualisees dans les systemes scolaires francais et britannique" Education et Societes, 1 (1), 47-72

(1998) Ball, S.J. and Vincent, C. "'I heard it on the grapevine': 'hot' knowledge and school choice" British Journal of Sociology of Education, 19 (3) 377-400

(1998) Ball, S.J. "Introduction: International Perspectives on Education Policy" - Guest Editor - Comparative Education 34 (2) 117-118

(1998) Ball, S. J. "Big Policies/Small World: an introduction to international perspectives on education policy" Comparative Education, 34 (2) 119-130

(1998) Reay, D. and Ball, S.J. "'Making their minds up': family dynamics of school choice" British Educational Research Journal, 24 (4) 431-448

(1998) Ball, S.J. and Bowe, R. "El curriculum nacional y su 'puesta en practica': El papel de los departamentos de materias o signaturas" Revista de Estudios del Curriculum, 1 (2) 105-131

(1998) Ball, S.J., Maguire, M.M. and Macrae, S. "Race, Space and the Further Education Marketplace" Race, Ethnicity and Education, 1 (2) 171-190

(1999) Ball, S.J., Macrae, S. and Maguire, M. "Young Lives, diverse choices and imagine futures in an education and training market" International Journal of Inclusive Education, 3 (3) 195-224

(1999) Ball, S.J. "Labour, Learning and the Economy: a 'policy sociology' perspective" Cambridge Journal of Education, 29 (2) 195-206

(1999) Ball, S.J. "The Market Form in United Kingdon Education: Information, Values and Political Control" La Revue Tocqueville, 10 (2) 89-100

(1999) Maguire, M. M., S.J. Ball and S. Macrae "Promotion, Persuasion and Class-taste: marketing (in) the UK post-compulsory sector British Journal of Sociology of Education, 20 (3) 291-308

(2000) Reay, D. and Ball, S.J. "Essentials of Female Management: Women’s ways of working in the Education Marketplace?" Educational Management and Administration, 28 (2) 145-158

(2000) Ball, S.J. "Performativities and Fabrications in the Education Economy: Towards the Performative Society" Australian Educational Researcher, 27 (2) 1-24

(2000) Ball, S.J., M. Maguire and S. Macrae "Space, Work and the 'New Urban Economies'" Journal of Youth Studies , 3 (3) 279-300

(2001) Reay, D., Davies, J., David, M. and S.J. Ball "Choice of degree or degrees of choice?: Class, race and the higher education choice process" Sociology, 35 (4) 855-847

(2001) Maguire, M., Ball, S. J. and Macrae, S. "'In all our Interests': internal marketing at Northwark Park School British Journal of Sociology of Education, 22 (1) 35-50

(2001) Reay, D., David, M. and Ball, S. J. "Making a Difference: Institutional Habituses and Higher Education Choice" Sociological Research Online, 5 (4) http//www.socresonline.org.uk/5/4.reay.html

(2001) Ball, S.J., Davies, J., David, M. and Reay, D. "Decisions, differenciations et distinctions: vers une sociologie du choix des etudes superieures" Revue francaise de pedagogie, 136, Juillet-Septembre

(2001) Ball S.J. 'New Youth, New Economies, New Inequalities', Studies on Education and Society, 11, 11-19

(2001) Vincent, C. and Ball, S.J. "A Market in Love? Choosing Pre-school Childcare British Educational Research Journal, 27 (5) 633-651

(2002) Ball, S.J., Davies, J., David, M. and Reay, D. "'Classification' and 'Jugement': social class and the 'cognitive structure' of choice of Higher Education" British Journal of Sociology of Education, 23 (1) 51-72

(2002) Reay, D., Ball, S. J. and David, M. "'Its taken me a long time but I'll get there in the end': mature students on access courses and higher education choice" British Educational Research Journal, 28 (1) 5-20

(2002) Ball, S. J., Reay, D. and David, M. “'Ethnic Choosing': Minority Ethnic students and Higher Education Choice.” Race Ethnicity and Education, 5 (4) 333-357

(2002) Ball, S. J. "School- Based Management: new culture and new subjectivity" da invetigacao as practicas: estudos de natureza educacional 3(1) 59-76

(2002) Tamboukou, M. and S.J. Ball "Nomadic Subjects: young black women in Britain" Discourse 23 (3) 267-284

(2002) Ball, S.J. "Textos, discursos y trayectorias de la politica" Paginas 2 (2/3) 19-33

(2003) David, M., Ball, S.J., Davies, J. and Reay, D. "Gender Issues in Parental Involvement in Student Choices of Higher Education" Gender and Education, 15 (1) 21-37

(2003) Ball, S.J. “The Risks of Social Reproduction: the middle class and education markets” London Review of Education, 1 (3) 163-175

(2003) Ball, S.J. “The teacher’s soul and the terrors of performativity”, Journal of Education Policy, 18 (2) 215-228

(2004) Ball, S.J. “Suorituskeskeisyys ja yksityistaminen jalkihiyvinvointivaltion koulutus-politiikassa” The Finnish Journal of

(2004) Vincent, C., Ball, S. J. and Kemp, S. “The Social Geography of Childcare: making up a middle class child” British Journal of Sociology of Education, 25(2) 229-244

(2004) Ball, S.J., C. Vincent, S.Kemp and S. Peitakienen “Middle Class Fractions, Childcare and the ‘relational’ and ‘normative’ aspects of class practices.” 54(4)

Contributions to Books

(1980) Ball, S. J. "Initial Encounters and the Process of Establishment" in Woods, P. E. (ed) Pupil Strategies, London, Croom Helm.

(1980) Ball, S. J. and Lacey, C. "Subject disciplines as the opportunity for group action: a measured critique of subject sub-cultures" in Woods, P. E. (ed) Teacher Strategies, London, Croom Helm.

(1981) Ball, S. J. "The teaching nexus: a case of mixed-ability" in Barton, L. and Walker, S. (eds) School, Teachers and Teaching, Lewes, Falmer Press.

(1982) Ball, S. J. "Participant Observation as a Research Method"in Deakin University, Case Study Method: Readings 34-44. The Conduct of Fieldwork, Deakin University Press.

(1982) Ball, S. J. "The Application and Verification of Participant Observation Case Study" in Deakin University, Case Study Methods 26-33. Perspectives on Case Study 4: Ethnography, Deakin University Press.

(1983) Ball, S. J. "Case Study Method: Some Notes and Problems" in Hammersley, M. (ed) The Ethnography of Schooling, Driffield, Nafferton Press.

(1983) Ball, S. J. "A subject of privilege: English and the school curriculum 1906-35", in Hammersley, M. and Hargreaves, A. (eds) Curriculum Practice: Sociological Perspectives, Lewes, Falmer Press.

(1984) Ball, S. J. "Beachside Reconsidered: Reflections on a methodological apprenticeship" in Burgess, R. (ed) The Research Process in Educational Settings: Ten Case Studies, Lewes, Falmer Press.

(1984) Ball, S. J. "Participant Observation", International Encyclopedia of Education: Research and Studies, Oxford, Pergamon Press.

(1984) Ball, S. J., Hull, R., Skelton, M. and Tudor, R. "The Tyranny of the 'devil's mill': time and task at school" in Delamont, S. (ed) Readings on Interaction in the Classroom, London, Methuen.

(1984) Ball, S. J. "Comprehensives in Crisis?" in Ball, S.J. (ed) Comprehensive Schooling, Lewes, Falmer Press. pp. 1-26.

(1984) Ball, S. J. "Becoming a Comprehensive: Facing up to falling rolls" (Ibid.) pp. 227-246.

(1984) Ball, S. J. "The Making of a School Subject: English for the English 1906-82" in Goodson, I. F. (ed) Social Histories of the Secondary Curriculum: Subjects for Study, Lewes, Falmer Press, pp. 53-88.

(1984) Ball, S. J. "Conflict, Panic and Inertia: mother tongue teaching in England 1970-83" in Herrlitz, W. et. al. (eds) Mother Tongue Education in Europe, Studies in Mother Tongue Education1, International Mother Tongue Education Network, National Institute for Curriculum Development, Enschede, Netherlands, pp. 160-193.

(1985) Ball, S. J. "Participant Observation with Pupils" in Burgess, R. G. (ed) Strategies of Educational Research, Lewes, Falmer Press, pp. 23-54.

(1985) Ball, S. J. "School Politics, Teachers' Careers and Educational Change: a case of becoming a comprehensive school" in Barton, L. and Walker, S. (eds) Education and Social Change, Beckenham, Croom Helm. pp. 29-61.

(1985) Ball, S. J. and Goodson, I. F. "Understanding Teachers: Concepts and Contexts" in Ball, S. J. and Goodson, I. F. (eds) Teachers' Lives and Careers, Lewes, Falmer Press.

(1986) Ball, S. J. "The Sociology of the School: Streaming, mixed-ability and social class" in Rogers, R. (ed) Education and Social Class, Lewes, Falmer Press.

(1986) Ball, S. J. "Relations, Structures and Conditions in Curriculum Change: A Political History of English Teaching" in Goodson, I. F. (ed) International Perspectives in Curriculum History, Beckenham, Croom Helm.

(1987) Ball, S. J. "English Teaching, the State and Forms of Literacy" in Kroon, S. and Sturm, J. (eds) Research on Mother-Tongue Education in an International Perspective, Enschede, VALO-M.

(1988) Ball, S. J. "Comprehensive Schooling, Effectiveness and Control: an analysis of educational discourses", in Slee, R. (ed) Disruptive Behaviour and School Effectiveness, Sydney, Macmillan.

(1988) Ball, S. J. "A Comprehensive School in a pluralist world - divisions and inequalities", in O'Keeffe, B. (ed) Building Walls or Building Bridges: Education for Tomorrow, Lewes, Falmer Press.

(1988) Ball, S. J. "Costing Democracy: Schooling, Equality and Democracy in Sweden", in Lauder, H. and Brown, P. (eds) Education in Decline: Policies for Reconstruction, Lewes, Falmer Press.

(1988) Stacey, M. and Ball, S. J. "A Portrait of Twelve English Lessons at Boundary School, England". Prepared for the International Mother-Tongue Education Conference, University of Antwerp.

(1989) Radnor, H.,