Daniel Pettersson, Andreas Nordin

Taming Chance in Education

Control, Prediction and Comparison

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume centres the notion of 'chance' in education as a key concept in contemporary education - relating to aspects like accountability, datafication, or international large-scale assessments - and discusses the impact that the historical desire to 'tame' this notion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781032438931
• ISBN-10: 1032438932
• Artikelnr.: 69945791

Autorenporträt

Daniel Pettersson is Professor of Education, University in Gävle, Sweden. Andreas Nordin is Professor of Education, Linnaeus University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: How the Book "Thinks" 1. Presenting the "Problem" 2. The Prelude of Taming Chance in Education 3. Stories about Desires
Hopes
and Promises to Be Answered by Control
Predictions
and Comparisons 4. Taming Chance in Educational Practices 5. Addendums for Legitimacy: Objectivity
Certainty
and Applicability 6. Concluding Remarks