1st Edition
Thinking with Stephen J. Ball Lines of Flight in Education
Foreword
Emiliano Grimaldi
Introduction – Diffractions: Thinking with Stephen J. Ball
Maria Tamboukou
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
Pablo del Monte
2. Character as calculable: The performative and biopolitical management of the child’s soul
Bronwen MA Jones and Patrick Bailey
3. Knowledge exchange in the social sciences: Knowledge ecosystems, networks and the social enterprising of research
Eleni Stamou, Alis Oancea, and Anne Edwards
Part II: Thinking and acting in the margins
4. Choice, Pathways and Transitions 20 years on
Sharon Gewirtz and Meg Maguire
5. Trapped in educational marginalisation: ‘I just drifted away’
Lucy Wenham
6. Borderlands and radical hope: Beyond academic philanthropy
Maria Tamboukou
Part III: Educational policies
7. Education policy; from social and consensual to self-interested and individual
John Clay and Rosalyn George
8. Policy and the ethics of doing disability: Working within and beyond an inclusive norm in the English higher education
Francesca Peruzzo
9. The Bologna Process: A policy discourse evolution
Magdalini Kolokitha
Part IV: Reflections
10. Passion and education: A reflection on working with Stephen J. Ball
Maria Chalari
11. The exclusionary every day: A journey in London schools, struggling to include all children in their primary school education
Claudine Rausch
What is it I have become? An afterword
Stephen J. Ball
Biography
Maria Tamboukou is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of East London, UK, and holds a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2022–2025).
