Stephen Ball Named Routledge Author of the Month
04 December 2009
Stephen J. Ball, Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education in the Department of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies at the Institute of Education, has been named author of the month by Routledge publications.
Stephen studied undergraduate sociology at the University of Essex, and an MA and DPhil in Sociological Studies at the University of Sussex working with Colin Lacey. His PhD was published in 1981 as Beachside Comprehensive. He worked at Sussex for ten years, and while there founded the Journal of Education Policy with Ivor Goodson, which he still edits. Stephen moved to King's College London in 1985 and then the Institute of Education in 2001. His involvement with Routledge goes back along way and includes a book series edited for Falmer Press and the publication of his prize-winning and much translated book The Micro-Politics of the School (Methuen). He has authored and edited many books, most recently Education Plc (2007) and The Education Debate (Policy Press), and has had 114 articles published in international journals and his work has been translated into 10 languages including 2 books in mandarin and 2 in Japanese.
His most recent book for Routledge is The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education, a collection that brings together the work of a group of the world's leading sociologists of education to explore and address key issues and concerns within the discipline. He has edited this with Luis Armando Gandin and previous Author of the Month Michael W. Apple (University of Wisconsin, Madison and Institute of Education, University of London).
Stephen Ball's research and writing has revolved around three issues social class, education policy and education reform (see Education Policy and Social Class) and has been driven by a series of research studies based on these topics. He is currently involved in 3 ESRC-funded projects, they are focused on: relationships between philanthropy and education policy (with Carolina Junemann); policy enactments in secondary schools (with Meg Maguire KCL and Annette Braun); and the educational strategies of the black middle class (with Carol Vincent, David Gillborn and Nicola Rollock). He is also working on an international study of the Global Middle Class with colleagues in Spain, Argentina, France, Australia and the US. Stephen is also the convener of the BERA Education and Social Theory SIG. In 2006 Stephen Ball was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.
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