New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education: Conducting Empirically Based Research

ISBN-13: 9780367731236 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 254 str.

Christina Elde Mølstad; Daniel Pettersson

Opis

New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education discusses contemporary trends and activities related to comparisons and quantifications. It aims to help scholars to conduct empirically based research on how comparisons and quantifications are instituted in practice at different levels in the educational system.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction by The Editors

Chapter 1: A Chimera of Quantifications and Comparisons: The Changing of Educational ‘Expertise’ by Daniel Pettersson & Thomas S Popkewitz

Chapter 2: Society speaks back: On the intimacy and complexity of comparative education research on a welfare state Agora by Rita Foss Lindblad & Sverker Lindblad

Chapter 3: Three Waves of Education Standardisation: How the curriculum changed from a matter of concern to a matter of fact by Daniel Sundberg

Chapter 4: Old Power, New Power and Ontological Flattening: The Global ‘Data Revolution’ in Education by Radhika Gorur

Chapter 5: Intellectual and Social Organisation of International Large-scale Assessment Research by Sverker Lindblad & Daniel Pettersson

Chapter 6: Evidently, the Broker Appears as the New Whizz-kid on the Educational Agora by Carl-Henrik Adolfsson, Eva Forsberg & Daniel Sundberg

Chapter 7: Bridging worlds and spreading light: Intermediary actors and the translation of knowledge for policy in Portugal by Luís Miguel Carvalho, Sofia Viseu & Catarina Gonçalves

Chapter 8: A data-driven school crisis by Andreas Nordin

Chapter 9: Co-Production of Knowledge on the Educational Agora: Media Activities and ‘Logics’ by Gun-Britt Wärvik, Caroline Runesdotter & Daniel Pettersson

Chapter 10: The Reception of Large-scale Assessments in China and India by Sarbani Chakraborty, Christina Elde Mølstad, Jingying Feng & Daniel Pettersson

Chapter 11: Education Export and Import: New Activities on the Educational Agora by Kampei Hayashi

Chapter 12: Measuring what we value, or valuing what we can measure? Performance indicators, school choice and the curriculum by Ulf Lundström

Chapter 13: Supplementary Tutoring in Sweden and Russia – A Safety Net Woven with Numbers by Eva Forsberg, Tatiana Mikhaylova, Stina Hallsén & Helen Melander Bowden

Chapter 14: School Certification: Marketing Schools by Appearance by Urban-Andreas Johansson & Christina Elde Mølstad

A Summary and an invitation by the Editors

List of Contributors

Index

O autorze

Christina Elde Mølstad is Head of Department and Associate Professor at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.

Daniel Pettersson is Associate Professor at the University of Gävle and Uppsala University, Sweden.