The Value of Education Seminar
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Professor Jacky Lumby at jlumby@southampton.ac.uk .
Event details
Sir James Matthews Education Lecture 2011
This lecture will illustrate and discuss a whole variety of current changes in English education policy and practice which are re-positioning education as a private good and opportunity for profit – as a commodity! Professor Ball will argue that the pressures on families to strive for social advantage and the pressures on business to find new markets are changing the landscape of English educational provision in profound ways. These changes are occurring for the most part with little public discussion of the value and values of the new forms of education which are emerging and yet may incur considerable social cost to us all.
The Education Lecture was established in 1987 in memory of Sir James Matthews, who devoted his life to public service and public education. Sir James was a leading figure in the post-war reconstruction and development of Southampton and many of the civic, cultural and educational features of the city today are testimony to his vision and hard work. The Sir James Matthews Education Lecture is held annually on a topic of relevance to current educational policy.
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Speaker information
Professor Stephen Ball, Institute of Education, University of London. Stephen Ball is Karl Mannheim Professor in the Sociology of Education at IoE. His main areas of research interest are: Policy and Practice of Comprehensive Education, Education markets and social exclusion, Education, the state and privatisation, Politics and Policy-making in education, and Techniques of qualitative research (case study, ethnography and participant observation.