Michel Foucault and Education Policy Analysis

Stephen J. Ball is the Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2006; and is also Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is the co-founder and Managing Editor of the Journal of Education Policy. His main areas of interest are in sociologically informed education policy analysis and the relationships between education, education policy, and social class. He has published over 140 journal articles and written 20 books, including How Schools do Policy (with Meg Maguire and Annette Braun, Routledge, 2012), Global Education Inc. (Routledge, 2012), Networks, New Governance and Education (with Carolina Junemann, Policy Press, 2012), and Foucault, Power and Education (Routledge, 2013).

• 1. Participation as governmentality? The effect of disciplinary technologies at the interface of service users and providers, families and the state 2. Thriving amid the performative demands of the contemporary audit culture: a matter of school context 3. Discourses of merit. The hot potato of teacher evaluation in Italy 4. A genealogy of the ‘future’: antipodean trajectories and travels of the ‘21st century learner’ 5. The policy dispositif: historical formation and method 6. Opening discourses of citizenship education: a theorization with Foucault 7. Changing policy levers under the neoliberal state: realising coalition policy on education and social mobility