ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors explore how Ball's research and scholarship has enabled them to view the work of teachers and teacher educators in addressing the challenges that have ensued. The authors first met Stephen J. Ball at a meeting of the Hillcole Group, a left-wing writing group, more than three decades ago. At this time Ball had begun to critique the impact of market forces on schools and schooling. Since that time Ball has made a huge impact on the authors' understanding of how education policy making is constructed and enacted in the change in the political economy from a post-War settlement to a post-Fordist, neoliberal, and a globalised corporatist world.
