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1. Bourdieu and the Field of Education Policy

   Understanding globalization, mediatization, implementation

   By Bob Lingard, Shaun Rawolle

   The work of the late French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has had huge impact on the social sciences and the field of education studies. Within education, however, the main focus has been his early work on the reproduction of inequality through schooling which as made effective usage of his concepts...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Politics, Policies and Pedagogies in Education

   The selected works of Bob Lingard

   By Bob Lingard

   Series: World Library of Educationalists

   In the World Library of Educationalists, international experts compile career long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces of work – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single...

   To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Routledge
3. Creating the Curriculum

   By Dominic Wyse, Vivienne Baumfield, David Egan, Louise Hayward, Moira Hulme, Ian Menter, Carmel Gallagher, Ruth Leitch, Kay Livingston, Bob Lingard

   Series: Understanding Primary Education Series

   Is there an ‘ideal’ primary school curriculum? Who should decide what the curriculum is? Should teachers have autonomy over how they teach? The curriculum is the heart of what teachers teach and learners learn: effective teaching is only possible with an effective curriculum. Yet in spite of its...

   Published August 16th 2012 by Routledge
4. Globalizing Education Policy

   By Fazal Rizvi, Bob Lingard

   Rizvi and Lingard's account of the global politics of education is thoughtful, complex and compelling. It is the first really comprehensive discussion and analysis of global trends in education policy, their effects - structural and individual - and resistance to them. In the enormous body of...

   Published August 10th 2009 by Routledge
5. The RoutledgeFalmer Reader in Education Policy and Politics

   Edited by Bob Lingard, Jenny Ozga

   Series: RoutledgeFalmer Readers in Education

   This Reader brings together selected papers from leading scholars to address the most significant recent development in educational policy and politics: the impact of globalisation. The papers discuss, document and analyse evidence of globalisation’s effects on the new direction of education...

   Published October 25th 2006 by Routledge
6. Educational Policy and the Politics of Change

   By Miriam Henry, Bob Lingard, Fazal Rizvi, Sandra Taylor

   Governments around the world are trying to come to terms with new technologies, new social movements and a changing global economy. As a result, educational policy finds itself at the centre of a major political struggle between those who see it only for its instrumental outcomes and those who see...

   Published February 12th 1997 by Routledge