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Continuity and Change

The Making of a Neoliberal Academic Subject

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Leaders in the Sociology of Education

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My career in education – moral and occupational – has been marked by dramatic changes and dramatic continuities in what it means to be educated. As a sociological life and as an intellectual journey my biography seems to consist of a set of ruptures and tensions and inconsistencies. These remain unresolved and are difficult to explain but form the backbone of the story I will tell here. Thinking back, the tensions that have made up my personal experience of education have perhaps made necessary a constant need to challenge and unsettle myself, to reconsider, move on, or perhaps move away – to be something else.

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    Stephen J. Ball

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  1. Rutgers University-Newark, USA

    Alan R. Sadovnik

  2. Guttman Community College, City University of New York, USA

    Ryan W. Coughlan

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Ball, S.J. (2016). Continuity and Change. In: Sadovnik, A.R., Coughlan, R.W. (eds) Leaders in the Sociology of Education. Leaders in Educational Studies. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-717-7_2

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