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Thomson, Pat; Hall, Christine; Jones, Ken – International Journal of Educational Research, 2012
School change is always local and dependent on the kinds of resources that are available. In this paper we explore the notion that knowledge is an important resources for vernacular educational reform. In order to explore this contention, we use the lens of cross-curricular changes undertaken by English schools in receipt of funding from Creative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Local Issues
Thomson, Pat; Hall, Christine; Jones, Ken – Journal of Education Policy, 2010
Policy sociologists typically research at large scale. This paper presents an example of a policy analysis which illuminates how policy is embedded in single incidents, lives and places. The case in point concerns the policy fetish for "closing the gap and raising the bar". This rhetoric is taken to mean improving the learning of all…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Policy Analysis, Epistemology, Educational Policy
Jewitt, Carey; Bezemer, Jeff; Jones, Ken; Kress, Gunther – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2009
This paper offers a historically comparative picture of the latest waves of policy and technological changes that have occurred between 2000-2006 and discusses their impact on the practices of secondary school English in the UK. It draws on data from two previous research projects to explore significant moments of micro-interaction in a classroom…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Influence of Technology, Educational Practices, Educational Change
Jones, Ken – European Educational Research Journal, 2005
This article makes a contribution to discussion on the neo-liberal reshaping of education in Western Europe. It argues for a greater attentiveness on the part of education researchers to collective social actors such as trade unions and social movements. Making use of concepts from Gramsci and from Poulantzas, it suggests that such actors had a…
Descriptors: Unions, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational Philosophy