Postgraduate Module Descriptor


EFPM910: Education Policy

This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

  • Ball, S.  (2007) Education PLC, London: Routledge.
  • Ball, S. (1998) Big Policies/Small World: An Introduction to International Perspectives in Education Policy, Comparative Education, 34: 2, Special Number (20): Comparative Perspective in Education Policy, pp. 119-130.
  • Burch, P. (2009) Hidden Markets, New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Clarke, J. and Newman, J. (1997) The Managerial State, Power, Politics and Ideology in the Remaking of Social Welfare, London: Sage.
  • Hall, D. Grimaldi, E., Gunter, H., Moller, J., Serpieri, R., and Skedsmo, G. (2016) Educational Reform and Modernisation in Europe: The Role of National Contexts in Mediating the New Public Management. European Educational Research Journal, 14 (16), pp. 487-507
  • Hall, D. and Gunter, H. (2016) England: the European Educational NPM Laboratory in Gunter, H., Grimaldi, E., Hall, D., and Serpieri, R. (Eds) New Public Management and the Reform of Education: European Lessons for Policy and Practice. London: Routledge
  • Hall, D. and McGinity, R. (2015) Conceptualising teacher professional identity in neo liberal times: Resistance, compliance and reform, Education Policy Analysis Archives
  • Lipman, P. (2004) High stakes education, London: Routledge Falmer.      
  • Ozga, J. (2000) Policy research in educational settings, Buckingham: Open University Press.
  • Pollitt, C. (2007) New Labour’s re-disorganization: hyper-modernism and the costs of reform, a cautionary tale. Public Management Review, 9, 529–543.
  • Sachs, J. (2001) 'Teacher professional identity: competing discourses, competing outcomes', Journal of Education Policy, 16: 2, pp 149 — 161.
  • Whitty, G. (2002) Making sense of education policy, London: Sage.