<p>As a complement to the author's text "Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal" or for use independently, this anthology contains key selections from a wide array of original sources. "Ideals and Ideologies" spans the spectrum of the major "isms" that have had a profound effect on politics in our time. Retaining the essays from the previous editions, Terence Ball and Richard Dagger have added several new essays including "Malcolm X Speaks", and Thomas Spragen's "The Limitations of Libertarianism", to reflect current political trends. The authors have also edited the selections to make them more reader-friendly, and have added footnotes to clarify allusions and translate foreign phrases.</p>

Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader;A Reader

Politics & Social Sciences

Ball, Stephen J.

Politics & Government

HarperCollins, Publishers

Progress and Inequality in Comprehensive Education: A Reconsideration for the 1980s

Green, Tony

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

Politics and Policy Making in Education: Explorations in Policy Sociology

Islamic theocracy is now firmly established in fundamentalist Iran, and waves of fundamentalism are sweeping the entire Islamic world, and its diaspora. This book examines the claim of those Islamists who contend that as a belief system and a way of life, Islam carries with it a theory of politics and the state which should be applied unquestioningly. Ayubi traces both the intellectual sources and the socio-economic bases of political Islam, arguing that it is a modern phenomenon, dating back only to the inter-war period. He describes its major proponents as urban, educated and relatively young people, whose energies were mobilized, but whose expectations were not fulfilled by the post-independence "populist" regimes in the Arab World. Islamic movements in six countries are studied in detail. Ayubi's broad definition of politics encompasses material on sex and the family, and on the emerging alternative economic and social network of Islamic banks, schools, and hospitals in the countries discussed. Ayubi stresses the traditional concern in Islam for the collective enforcement of morals, but argues that there is no case for the commonly held conception that politics begins from theological principles in the Arab world: the historical connection between Islam and politics can be explained as an attempt by the rulers to legitimize their actions. He suggests that radical Islamists are reversing this position by subjecting politics to their specific religious views, so their movement is in some senses an anti-state one. He concludes by discussing possible intellectual responses to fundamentalism, drawing on the thinking of contemporary Muslim liberals.

Politics and policy making in education: Explorations in policy sociology

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Based on interviews with key actors in the policy-making process, Stephen Ball's book attempts to map the changes in education policy and policy-making in the Thatcher decade. The focus of the book is the 1988 "Education Reform Act"; its origins, purposes and effects. The author looks behind the scenes at the priorities of the politicians, senior civil servants and government advisors who were influential in making changes. There are direct quotations from senior civil servants at HMI and three former secretaries of state, which provide insights into the way in which policy is made. The book focuses on real-life political conflicts, examining the way in which contemporary education policy is related to the ideal of society projected by Thatcherism. It looks in detail at the New Right government advisors and think-tanks; the industrial lobby and the DES, addressing current issues such as the National Curriculum, national testing, and City Technical Colleges. Stephen Ball sets these important issues within a theoretical framework which illuminates the whole process of policy-making. This book will be of interest not only to educationalists, but also to policy analysts and political scientists.

Micropolitics of the School: Towards a Theory of School Organization

Reforming Education and Changing Schools: Case Studies in Policy Sociology

The Education Reform Act introduced in England and Wales in 1988 brought about enormous changes in schools, both as management units and as educational institutions. This book is the first to look at the effects of the Act in all its aspects on the basis of empirical evidence gathered from schools over the first three years of the Act's implementation. It looks at how change is being achieved in the Local Management of Schools, the influence of the market on schools, the introduction of the National Curriculum and the place of Special Needs provision in the new education scene. These are areas which have hiterto been treated in isolation by researchers. In fact as each develops it has ramifications in other areas. Bowe, Ball and Gold preserve a sense of the complexity of this change process. They show too how the policies expressed in one way in the Act are a constantly changing series of texts whose expression and interpretation vary according to context in which the are being put into practice. This book should be of interest to all who want to know about educational reform in Britain. It should also be of interest to those in the fields of education policy, educational management and sociology of education.

Bowe, Richard

A volume in the Routledge Series: Sociology of Education, 505 pages

Sociology Educ:Major Writ V1 (Major Themes in Education, V. 1)

Sociology

Sociology Educ:Major Writ V2

Volume 3 in the Routledge Series : Sociology of Education.

Sociology Educ:Major Writ V3

Sociology Educ:Major Writ V4

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