Testing and Inclusive Schooling: International Challenges and Opportunities

ISBN-13: 9781138701489 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 268 str.

Bjorn Hamre; Anne Morin; Christian Ydesen

Opis

Since 1994, when many countries ratified the Salamanca Statement on social and educational inclusion, worldwide efforts have been made to include all children in the general school system, and thus reduce exclusion. Testing and Inclusive Schooling provides a comparative perspective on these seemingly incompatible global agendas and efforts. With an examination of the international testing culture currently permeating national school reforms, alongside the international inclusiveness agenda, this book raises a critical and constructive discussion of these movements, which appear to support one another, yet simultaneously offer profound contradictions. With contributions from around the world, this book analyses the dilemma arising between school reforms that urge schools to move towards a constantly higher academic level, and those who practice a politics of inclusion leading to a greater degree of student diversity in schools. In addition to the discussion of this main dilemma, the chapters within the book will examine a second one arising between global agendas and local practices and solutions. Contributions to the book consider the types of problems that arise when reforms implemented at the international level are transformed into national and local policies and practices, whilst also applying a comparative view to educational practices and solutions. As a result, the proposed book firmly places global educational efforts into perspective, by highlighting a range of different cases at both national and local levels. Testing and Inclusive Schooling sheds light on new possibilities for educational improvements in global and local contexts and will be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students interested in international and comparative education, assessment technologies and practices, inclusion, educational psychology and educational policy.

Spis treści

Preface: The tension field between testing and inclusion: Introducing a research endeavour  Section 1: Testing and School Reforms  Chapter 1: Educational testing, the question of the public good, and room for inclusion: A comparative study between Scotland and the United States  Chapter 2: Minorities and educational testing in schools in Arctic regions: An analysis and discussion focusing on normality, democracy, and inclusion for the cases of Greenland and the Swedish Sami Schools  Chapter 3: Educational opportunity between meritocracy and equity: A review of the National College Entrance Examination in China since 1977  Chapter 4: The ‘problem’ or ‘quality’ schooling, national testing, and inclusion: Australian insights into policy and practice  Chapter 5: Standardized assessment and the shaping of neoliberal student subjectivities Section Essay: Stephen Ball  Section 2: The Agenda of Inclusion  Chapter 6: Quality and Inclusion in the SDGs: Tension in principle and practice  Chapter 7: School reforms, market logic, and the politics of inclusion in the United States and Denmark  Chapter 8: School development and inclusion in England and Germany  Chapter 9: Inclusion as a right and an obligation in a neoliberal society  Chapter 10: Refugee education: Conceptualizing inclusion amid conflict and crisis Section Essay: Roger Slee  Section 3: Inclusion and Psychological Assessment  Chapter 11: Inclusion: The Cinderella concept in educational policy in Latin America  Chapter 12: Psychiatric testing and everyday school life: Collaborative work with diagnosed children  Chapter 13: Development of a formative assessment system within a cross-cultural context (MANGO)  Chapter 14: The significance of SEN assessment, diagnoses, and psychometric tests in inclusive education: Studies from Sweden and Germany Section Essay: Lani Florian Conclusion