Social Justice and Educational Measurement: John Rawls, the History of Testing, and the Future of Education

ISBN-13: 9780815360018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 248 str.

United States) Zachary (Meridian University Stein

Opis

This book addresses foundational concerns at the interface of educational measurement and social justice. Following John Rawls’s philosophical methods, Stein builds and justifies an ethical framework for guiding practices involving educational measurement which demonstrates that educational measurement is critical to insuring, or inhibiting, just educational arrangements, and distinguishes between efficiency- and justice-oriented testing. Analysing historical case studies which exemplify ethical testing issues, this book explores design principles and arguments in favour of radically democratic school reforms, which address how the future of testing might be shaped to ensure justice for all.

Spis treści

Preface: the personal is political  Introduction: tipping the scales: social justice, the philosophy of education, and standardized testing  1. Social justice and institutionalized measurement  2. Social justice and education  3. A theory of just educational measurement  4. Social justice and the origins of educational measurement  5. Social justice and the rise of national testing infrastructures  Conclusion: Social justice and the future of testing

O autorze

Zachary Stein was educated at Hampshire College and Harvard University. He is the chair of the education program at Meridian University and the Academic Director of the activist think-tank at the Centre for Integral Wisdom.