Ken Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ken Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ken |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keele University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4646-1000 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Grey/green: Anne Turvey’s politics of education
The article is an appreciation of the work of Anne Turvey as a teacher, a teacher educator and a researcher. It discusses her evolving responses (1988–2015) to government-driven changes in the teaching of English in schools and teacher education. It shows how throughout this period she supported practices informed by Vygotskian theory and by a close attention to the cultures of London school-students. In doing so, she contributed significantly to…
Diverging systems of educational leadership in the four nations of the United Kingdom
This special edition of School Leadership and Management is published in 2021, a year which comes with renewed optimism but also considerable leadership challenges. It is an opportune time to revie
Constructions and purposes of school leadership in the UK
This article offers a comparative analysis and interpretation of leadership in the four UK education jurisdictions (Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland), informed by the articles in this special issue and by a project report, all outcomes of an initiative, ‘Educational Leadership, Management and Administration in the United Kingdom: A Comparative Review’, funded by the British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society…
Notes on a Crisis: The Pandemic and English Schools
The Covid-19 pandemic has created global disruption in education. It has served to highlight pre-existing inequalities, at the same time as it has stimulated new forms of educational provision, notably ‘online learning’. This article focuses on the debates and conflicts provoked by the pandemic’s impact on schooling in England. It aims to show how the historic policy preferences of Conservative governments have been carried forwards into a new si…
The Sun Sets on Old England: Contradictions in Conservative Educational Policy
The article describes the increasing discrepancy between the curriculum policies of the Conservative government and the policy directions argued for by business organisations and other advocates of a human capital perspective in education. It traces some of the origins of the current Conservative preference for cultural rather than economic goals in this area of policy, and suggests a new understanding of the relationship between neoconservative …
Knowledge politics
Teachers, Arts Practice and Pedagogy
What are possible overlaps between arts practice and school pedagogy? How is teacher subjectivity and pedagogy affected when teachers engage with arts practice, in particular, theatre practices? We draw on research conducted into the Learning Performance Network (LPN), a project that involved school teachers working with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the University of Warwick. The aim of the commissioned research was to look at the effects on…
Education, Childhood and Anarchism
Conservatism and educational crisis: The case of England
The Conservative-led Coalition government in Britain is strongly committed to a programme of austerity. In the short term, this is a programme which makes more difficult the country's exit from a period of recession and slow growth; in the longer term, it threatens cuts and privatisation which call into question the welfare state. Yet, politically, the Coalition has managed the post-2008 crisis more effectively than other European governments. Fo…
Can individual budgets have an impact on carers and the caring role
The introduction of cash-for-care schemes such as individual or personal budgets in England has been seen as central to the personalisation agenda for reforming the delivery of adult social care. However, despite there being 5.2 million carers in England and Wales, the initiative concentrates predominantly on the needs of the service user. The implementation of individual budgets (IBs) was piloted within 13 local authorities during 2005–2007 and …
Leadership in a Performative Context: A framework for decision-making
This paper examines a model of decision-making within the context of current and emerging regimes of accountability being proposed and implemented for school systems in a number of jurisdictions. These approaches to accountability typically involve the use of various measurable student learning outcomes as well as other measures of performance to do with teachers and schools in general, often having high-stakes consequences. Given this context of…
The Right and the Left
The article uses the policies of the English Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, to contrast the oddly adventurous character of English Conservatism and the more hesitant positions of those who in some sort oppose it. It suggests that in defence of its own policies, Conservatism edits and co-opts opposing traditions, in the effort to produce a potent ideological supplement to neo-liberalism. The article suggests a different reading of…
Social Policy Digest Online
The Social Policy Digest went online in the summer of 2003. This means that the Digest, which used to be printed as part of the Journal of Social Policy, is now only available via the web
The past is all before us: The history of education in hard times
Living Two Lives: A Conversation about Being Young, Educated and Female in India
This brief study centres on how some young women in two teacher education programmes in Delhi, India are negotiating their sense of gender identity in a very patriarchal society. It provides first-hand descriptions of what it means to be coming-of-age in this transitional society and offers an analysis of the tensions resulting from the conflicting expectations, restrictions, and opportunities for young women in modern-day India. The author posit…
Social Policy Digest Online
The Social Policy Digest went online in 2002, and since then has developed into a major web-based resource on UK social policy issues. By the end of 2010 it contained around 28,000 entries, covering policy developments and research findings across the whole range of social policy fields
The Twentieth Century Is Not Yet Over: Resources for the Remaking of Educational Practice
The article traces some lines of connection between teachers’ efforts to reshape the way that teaching and learning are done in local settings, and larger‐scale shifts and tensions in education policy. The article begins with an account of opposition to the changes that European governments inspired by global policy orthodoxy seek to make in their education systems. It suggests that the intellectual and political resources that supply such opposi…
Maggie’s day: A small‐scale analysis of English education policy
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 students, while at the same time producing a more equitable, quality education system. In the case in point, we mo…
Crisis, what crisis
Responding to the recent work of Andrew Gamble, the article discusses the extent to which the British situation can be described in terms of crisis. It suggests that an essential element of crisis is that of political and social contestation, and explores the terms on which contestation is taking shape in and around British education
Cidadãos peregrinos: Os "usuários" do SUS e os significados de sua demanda a prontos-socorros e hospitais no contexto de um processo de reorientação do modelo assistencial
Apesar da ênfase dada à lógica territorial no processo de reorientação do modelo assistencial e da definição da atenção básica como porta de entrada do sistema, os usuários do SUS, em sua busca por assistência médica, vêm demonstrando historicamente preferência por prontos-socorros e hospitais. Para tentar entender esse comportamento, realizou-se pesquisa com grupos focais de usuários, em que se verificou que a imagem que o usuário faz dos serviç…
Policy rhetoric and the renovation of English schooling: The case of Creative Partnerships
Facing difficulties in the implementation of its ‘standards’ agenda, the English government has recently introduced a set of policy strategies and initiatives which seek to promote enjoyment, innovation and creativity in education. One such initiative is Creative Partnerships (CP). Funded predominantly from the Arts portfolio, CP brings creative practitioners into schools with the intention of bringing change to teaching and learning, and, more w…
Conservative Party Education Policies: 1976–1997: The Influence of Politics and Personality by Daniel Callaghan
Conservative Party Education Policies: 1976–1997: the Influence of Politics and Personality by Daniel Callaghan. Pp. 234. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press. 2006. £19.95 (pbk). ISBN 1-184519-120-X (pbk)
Researching Resistance: Campaigns Against Academies in England
This article uses social movement theory to analyse campaigns against a new type of government-sponsored school – the Academy – in four areas of England. It seeks to identify the social composition of anti-Academy campaigns, to track their encounters with proponents of the new schools and to describe the characteristic forms of their campaigning strategies. In doing so, the article aims to help place research into educational opposition and conte…
Remaking Education in Western Europe
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 formative role in the making of post-war education systems, and that reducing their influence is now an…
Investigating the Production of University English in Mass Higher Education: Towards an alternative methodology
Two university English seminars were video-recorded to provide data for a pilot project investigating how English is produced or 'actualized' in teaching and learning encounters. The project is positioned within three contexts: national policy about higher education teaching; current research about higher education pedagogy; and, the history and politics of university English. The main aim of the article is to explicate a methodology that takes a…
Maggie’s day: A small‐scale analysis of English education policy
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 students, while at the same time producing a more equitable, quality education system. In the case in point, we mo…
Explorations into the Relationship between Spatial Structure and Spatial Interaction
This paper explores the relationship between spatial structure and spatial interaction at the intraurban level. To examine this relationship an experimental framework is designed based on the application of a doubly constrained entropy-type gravity model to journey-to-work data for twenty-four Canadian urban areas. The study demonstrates that distance-decay exponents are strongly influenced by geographic structure and the geometry of origins and …
New Labour's cultural turn: Some tensions in contemporary educational and cultural policy
The election of a Labour government in Britain, after 18 years of Conservative rule, has seen the emergence of a new educational discourse, based on a distinctive combination of cultural, economic and social themes. In this article, we identify the components of the discourse, and explore how it is currently deployed in arguments for educational change. Specifically, our focus is on two recent documents: All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and E…
The Retail Environment
Part 1 Processes: why study retail location the geography of demand the major actors on the supply side the mystery of consumer behaviour. Part 2 Retail structure: retailing and the settlement pattern the changing distribution system commercial structure within the metropolis the changing retail structure. Part 3 Location analysis: making marketing decisions site selection trade area analysis choosing a location strategy. Part 4 The future: plann…
Researching Resistance: Campaigns Against Academies in England
This article uses social movement theory to analyse campaigns against a new type of government-sponsored school – the Academy – in four areas of England. It seeks to identify the social composition of anti-Academy campaigns, to track their encounters with proponents of the new schools and to describe the characteristic forms of their campaigning strategies. In doing so, the article aims to help place research into educational opposition and conte…
Policy rhetoric and the renovation of English schooling: The case of Creative Partnerships
Facing difficulties in the implementation of its ‘standards’ agenda, the English government has recently introduced a set of policy strategies and initiatives which seek to promote enjoyment, innovation and creativity in education. One such initiative is Creative Partnerships (CP). Funded predominantly from the Arts portfolio, CP brings creative practitioners into schools with the intention of bringing change to teaching and learning, and, more w…
Retail Structure of Beijing
One dynamic and central element in China's urban landscape is its retail structure. Yet, little attention has been given to the burgeoning retail sector in the vast literature that relates to China's economic reforms. Using the latest census of commercial activity in Beijing and recent empirical work undertaken in the city, we analyze Beijing's postreform retail structure and economy. Beijing's retail sector has been greatly diversified in both o…
Partnership’ as Strategy: Public—private relations in Education Action Zones
The article summarises recent political and theoretical presentations of ‘partnership’ and ‘networking’ and discusses their relevance to the understanding of contemporary education policy. It focuses in detail on the first stages of the establishment of Education Action Zones (EAZs) in two areas of England, describing in detail their patterns of governance, and the relationship they involve between ‘public’ and ‘private’ partners. It questions wh…
Social Policy Digest Online
The Social Policy Digest went online in the summer of 2003. This means that the Digest, which used to be printed as part of the Journal of Social Policy, is now only available via the web
China's Retail Sector in Transition
This paper examines China's retail sector with a focus on three major changes in the 1990s: the declining sales performance of key domestic retailers; entry of overseas retailers; and development of indigenous retail chains as a national strategy to modernize the retail industry and there by fend off foreign competition. While the central government approved the entry of only 18 overseas retailers, thousands of overseas-invested retail enterprise…
Internships in the applied geography curriculum
The internship is a necessary and important part of an applied geography curriculum. At Ryerson, this takes the form of a three‐month placement with a sponsoring agency whose area of operation relates directly to a student's field of specialisation. At the same time, non‐academics are encouraged to participate in the organisation, design and teaching of the formal undergraduate programme. This helps to develop a closer integration of course mater…
Sport and Friendship
My aim in this paper is to make the case for encouraging friendship in sport. First, I argue that sport is especially conducive to friendship. Second, I argue that since friendship is life-enhancing then to participate in sport and not to have made friends is to have failed to take a life-enhancing opportunity. Third, I argue that there are sporting benefits to be had from sporting friendships. Finally, I say something about the role of friendshi…
Public Service Goes to Market: British Children's Television in Transition
This article analyses recent moves towards a more commercial, multi-channel environment in British broadcasting, and the consequences of such an environment for children. Contrary to those who have feared for the abandonment of a 'Great Tradition in children's broadcasting, the article suggests that the situation is more complex and ambivalent. The new environment has seen an increase in the amount of provision for children, both on terrestrial a…
Conservatism and educational crisis: The case of England
The Conservative-led Coalition government in Britain is strongly committed to a programme of austerity. In the short term, this is a programme which makes more difficult the country's exit from a period of recession and slow growth; in the longer term, it threatens cuts and privatisation which call into question the welfare state. Yet, politically, the Coalition has managed the post-2008 crisis more effectively than other European governments. Fo…
Crisis, what crisis
Responding to the recent work of Andrew Gamble, the article discusses the extent to which the British situation can be described in terms of crisis. It suggests that an essential element of crisis is that of political and social contestation, and explores the terms on which contestation is taking shape in and around British education
In the Shadow of the Centre-Left: Post-Conservative Politics and Rethinking Educational Change
Can individual budgets have an impact on carers and the caring role
The introduction of cash-for-care schemes such as individual or personal budgets in England has been seen as central to the personalisation agenda for reforming the delivery of adult social care. However, despite there being 5.2 million carers in England and Wales, the initiative concentrates predominantly on the needs of the service user. The implementation of individual budgets (IBs) was piloted within 13 local authorities during 2005–2007 and …
Staging an Official Inquiry for Policy Change: The case of the Drug Evaluation Review in Australia
This paper provides a participant account of what was involved in Australia in using an official inquiry to produce a change in regulatory policy pertaining to therapeutic drug administration. The case study shows how the inquiry process was taken beyond formality and was focused on generating packages of bargains to which contending stakeholders could lend support. The centrality of these pragmatic and calculative dimensions of policy change did…
Holywell Lane: A Squatter Community in the Shropshire Coalfield
The thirty or so cottages which lined Holywell Lane in the parish of Little Dawley, about 2 miles from the Iron Bridge, formed one of many squatter communities in the Coalbrookdale Coalfield. Documentary, oral, architectural and archaeological sources are here used to demonstrate the particular features of this kind of settlement, in its buildings, the long periods of tenure by some families, and the variety of occupations and by-employments of i…
Leadership in a Performative Context: A framework for decision-making
This paper examines a model of decision-making within the context of current and emerging regimes of accountability being proposed and implemented for school systems in a number of jurisdictions. These approaches to accountability typically involve the use of various measurable student learning outcomes as well as other measures of performance to do with teachers and schools in general, often having high-stakes consequences. Given this context of…
Investigating the Production of University English in Mass Higher Education: Towards an alternative methodology
Two university English seminars were video-recorded to provide data for a pilot project investigating how English is produced or 'actualized' in teaching and learning encounters. The project is positioned within three contexts: national policy about higher education teaching; current research about higher education pedagogy; and, the history and politics of university English. The main aim of the article is to explicate a methodology that takes a…
Across the Great Divide? Culture, Economic Life and the Rethinking of Education Policy
The article alms to initiate a dialogue between educational positions which have previously existed in mutual isolation. It defines these positions – which it terms ‘culturalism’ and ‘economism’ — and seeks to identify their influence on policy and practice in England in the period since 1944; it further examines the ways in which these positions have been modified and developed under Conservative rule in the years since 1979. It argues that, whe…
Internships in the applied geography curriculum
The internship is a necessary and important part of an applied geography curriculum. At Ryerson, this takes the form of a three‐month placement with a sponsoring agency whose area of operation relates directly to a student's field of specialisation. At the same time, non‐academics are encouraged to participate in the organisation, design and teaching of the formal undergraduate programme. This helps to develop a closer integration of course mater…
Explorations into the Relationship between Spatial Structure and Spatial Interaction
This paper explores the relationship between spatial structure and spatial interaction at the intraurban level. To examine this relationship an experimental framework is designed based on the application of a doubly constrained entropy-type gravity model to journey-to-work data for twenty-four Canadian urban areas. The study demonstrates that distance-decay exponents are strongly influenced by geographic structure and the geometry of origins and …
Holywell Lane: A Squatter Community in the Shropshire Coalfield
The thirty or so cottages which lined Holywell Lane in the parish of Little Dawley, about 2 miles from the Iron Bridge, formed one of many squatter communities in the Coalbrookdale Coalfield. Documentary, oral, architectural and archaeological sources are here used to demonstrate the particular features of this kind of settlement, in its buildings, the long periods of tenure by some families, and the variety of occupations and by-employments of i…
Holywell Lane: A Squatter Community in the Shropshire Coalfield
The thirty or so cottages which lined Holywell Lane in the parish of Little Dawley, about 2 miles from the Iron Bridge, formed one of many squatter communities in the Coalbrookdale Coalfield. Documentary, oral, architectural and archaeological sources are here used to demonstrate the particular features of this kind of settlement, in its buildings, the long periods of tenure by some families, and the variety of occupations and by-employments of i…
Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth and Death: Buddhism in the contemporary world. Daisaku Ikeda
Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth and Death: Buddhism in the contemporary world. Daisaku Ikeda. Macdonald, London 1988. xiv, 218 pp. £9.95
The Retail Environment
Part 1 Processes: why study retail location the geography of demand the major actors on the supply side the mystery of consumer behaviour. Part 2 Retail structure: retailing and the settlement pattern the changing distribution system commercial structure within the metropolis the changing retail structure. Part 3 Location analysis: making marketing decisions site selection trade area analysis choosing a location strategy. Part 4 The future: plann…
Staging an Official Inquiry for Policy Change: The case of the Drug Evaluation Review in Australia
This paper provides a participant account of what was involved in Australia in using an official inquiry to produce a change in regulatory policy pertaining to therapeutic drug administration. The case study shows how the inquiry process was taken beyond formality and was focused on generating packages of bargains to which contending stakeholders could lend support. The centrality of these pragmatic and calculative dimensions of policy change did…
Cultural Problems of Conservatism
A New Kind of Cultural Politics? The 1993 Boycott of Testing
Educational progress and economic change: Notes on some recent proposals
This article discusses some recent attempts to develop an economic case that can justify proposals for curricular and institutional reform in education of a radical kind. It investigates the claim, which underpins current debates around a Labour Party alternative to Conservative education policy, that a new phase of development, often referred to as ‘post‐Fordism’, of the dominant economies of the western world provides the basis, and the necessi…
Across the Great Divide? Culture, Economic Life and the Rethinking of Education Policy
The article alms to initiate a dialogue between educational positions which have previously existed in mutual isolation. It defines these positions – which it terms ‘culturalism’ and ‘economism’ — and seeks to identify their influence on policy and practice in England in the period since 1944; it further examines the ways in which these positions have been modified and developed under Conservative rule in the years since 1979. It argues that, whe…
Buddhism and Ecology: A Zen practitioner's perspective
(1997). Buddhism and Ecology: a Zen practitioner's perspective. Journal of Beliefs & Values: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 17-24
Tradition and Nation: Breaking the link
Against Conformity: Raphael Samuel
This paper is about the work of the historian and committed intellectual Raphael Samuel, a central figure of the British New Left. It considers his political and intellectual activities over a 30‐year period, and sets them in their changing context. It seeks to argue that in many respects Samuel's work provides means for rethinking educational history and contemporary educational politics
Lessons from Brecht: A Brechtian approach to drama, texts and education[1]
In this article the authors seek to reread Brecht in terms of his contribution to drama education and pedagogic thought, rather than viewing him in conventional terms as a cultural icon and ‘great practitioner’ of theatre. The authors believe that a Brechtian conceptual framework, with its emphasis on critical production and critical audiences, is still pertinent to the conditions of contemporary cultural production. A Brechtian framework is seen…
Public Service Goes to Market: British Children's Television in Transition
This article analyses recent moves towards a more commercial, multi-channel environment in British broadcasting, and the consequences of such an environment for children. Contrary to those who have feared for the abandonment of a 'Great Tradition in children's broadcasting, the article suggests that the situation is more complex and ambivalent. The new environment has seen an increase in the amount of provision for children, both on terrestrial a…
In the Shadow of the Centre-Left: Post-Conservative Politics and Rethinking Educational Change
Partnership’ as Strategy: Public—private relations in Education Action Zones
The article summarises recent political and theoretical presentations of ‘partnership’ and ‘networking’ and discusses their relevance to the understanding of contemporary education policy. It focuses in detail on the first stages of the establishment of Education Action Zones (EAZs) in two areas of England, describing in detail their patterns of governance, and the relationship they involve between ‘public’ and ‘private’ partners. It questions wh…
China's Retail Sector in Transition
This paper examines China's retail sector with a focus on three major changes in the 1990s: the declining sales performance of key domestic retailers; entry of overseas retailers; and development of indigenous retail chains as a national strategy to modernize the retail industry and there by fend off foreign competition. While the central government approved the entry of only 18 overseas retailers, thousands of overseas-invested retail enterprise…
Sport and Friendship
My aim in this paper is to make the case for encouraging friendship in sport. First, I argue that sport is especially conducive to friendship. Second, I argue that since friendship is life-enhancing then to participate in sport and not to have made friends is to have failed to take a life-enhancing opportunity. Third, I argue that there are sporting benefits to be had from sporting friendships. Finally, I say something about the role of friendshi…
New Labour's cultural turn: Some tensions in contemporary educational and cultural policy
The election of a Labour government in Britain, after 18 years of Conservative rule, has seen the emergence of a new educational discourse, based on a distinctive combination of cultural, economic and social themes. In this article, we identify the components of the discourse, and explore how it is currently deployed in arguments for educational change. Specifically, our focus is on two recent documents: All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and E…
Retail Structure of Beijing
One dynamic and central element in China's urban landscape is its retail structure. Yet, little attention has been given to the burgeoning retail sector in the vast literature that relates to China's economic reforms. Using the latest census of commercial activity in Beijing and recent empirical work undertaken in the city, we analyze Beijing's postreform retail structure and economy. Beijing's retail sector has been greatly diversified in both o…
Social Policy Digest Number One Hundred and Twenty Four February to April 2002
Contents1 Social security and income maintenance2 Health3 Education4 Housing and environment5 Personal social services6 Law and the treatment of the offender7 Unemployment and the labour market8 Race relations9 The voluntary sector10 Government11 Gender and sexuality12 Demography
Number One Hundred and Twenty Two August to October 2001
Contents 1 Social security and income maintenance 2 Health 3 Education 4 Housing and environment 5 Personal social services 6 Law and the treatment of the offender 7 Unemployment and the labour market 8 Race relations 9 The voluntary sector 10 Government 11 Gender 12 Demography
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