Education, Globalisation and New Times

The late 1970s and early 1980s was a period of crisis within the education sector, out of which came an extensive, ongoing and global project of reform. Policies proliferated and education was no longer a policy backwater.

Stephen J. Ball is Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Ivor F. Goodson is Professor of Learning Theory at the University of Brighton, UK.

Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education at King’s College London, UK.