Professor Stephen Ball's Opening Keynote Kaleidoscope Address "Things are not as Necessary as all that": Re-making Educational Research as Useful and Relevant
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The landscape of education in England and globally is changing in myriad and profound ways. Education, education policy and indeed education research are now being done in new places, by new people, in new ways. The perspectives, methods and focus of our research need to change to respond.
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| Created: | 2013-06-11 09:11 | ||||
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| Collection: | Kaleidoscope | ||||
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||||
| Copyright: | FERSA | ||||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||||
| Keywords: | Marketization; Education Research; Neoliberalism; Policy; Foucault; | ||||
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| Abstract: | The landscape of education in England and globally is changing in myriad and profound ways. Education, education policy and indeed education research are now being done in new places, by new people, in new ways. The perspectives, methods and focus of our research need to change to respond. We cannot continue to research the same issues in the same ways. The challenge is twofold. First, to come to grips with the new landscape of education, to understand it, and to find new research tools that are relevant to it. Second, to struggle to avoid being subsumed into the sensibilities, discourses and values that are invested in this new landscape. That is, to find spaces within which meaningful and useful research is possible, from which it is possible to say that 'things are not as necessary as all that'.
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