New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education

Conducting Empirically Based Research
Herausgeber: Mølstad, Christina Elde; Pettersson, Daniel

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781138612853
• ISBN-10: 1138612855
• Artikelnr.: 56239441

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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