Measuring the Unmeasurable in Education

ISBN-13: 9780367665388 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 170 str.

Elaine Unterhalter

Opis

This book explores how we can understand measurement in areas of education policy, planning and practice that have not previously been considered measurable, drawing on analyses from philosophy, history, sociology, and economics.

Spis treści

1. Negative capability? Measuring the unmeasurable in education  2. The limits of measurement: misplaced precision, phronesis, and other Aristotelian cautions for the makers of PISA, APPR, etc.  3. Assessing needs, fostering development: UNESCO, illiteracy and the global politics of education (1945–1960)  4. Valuing and revaluing education: what can we learn about measurement from the South African poor?  5. Evolving approaches to the study of childhood poverty and education  6. Can mobile health training meet the challenge of ‘measuring better’?  7. The professoriate: the challenged subject in US higher education  8. Towards measuring the economic value of higher education: lessons from South Africa

O autorze

Elaine Unterhalter is Professor of Education and International Development at University College London, UK and Co-Director of the Centre for Education and International Development. She has written extensively on global education policy making, with a particular interest in equity in practice and the politics of measurement. Her book, Education, Poverty and Global Goals for Gender Equality (with Amy North, 2017), looks at how the measurement of poverty, education, and gender equality is interpreted by practitioners in a range of international, national, and local organisations.