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Assessment for Social Justice - Perspectives and Practices within Higher Education (Paperback)
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Assessment for Social Justice - Perspectives and Practices within Higher Education (Paperback)
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Assessment for Social Justice takes the established idea of
'assessment for learning' and extends it to consider how assessment
contributes to social justice within and through higher education.
Jan McArthur invites the reader to rethink familiar positions on
assessment and fairness and seeks to explore the full complexity of
a critical theory-inspired notion of social justice. She positions
her work in contrast to more procedural approaches to social
justice, such as John Rawls's influential theorisation of social
justice. In contrast, McArthur draws on the work of third
generation critical theorist, Axel Honneth, and takes inspiration
from Honneth's three realms of mutual recognition in order to
reconsider the nature of assessment relationships and practices. A
further theoretical strand is introduced in the form of social
practice theory, and particularly the work of Theodore Shatzki.
McArthur provides a theoretically rigorous understanding of
assessment as a social practice, and as a vehicle both for and
against social justice. Together with critical theory, this work
enables a realizable vision of an alternative approach to
assessment in higher education, where the underlying aim is greater
social justice. McArthur argues that students must be nurtured to
recognise the social contribution that they can make as a result of
engaging with knowledge in higher education, rather than defining
their achievements in terms of a mark, grade or degree
classification.
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