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Taming Chance in Education - Control, Prediction and Comparison: Daniel Pettersson, Andreas Nordin Taming Chance in Education - Control, Prediction and Comparison
Daniel Pettersson, Andreas Nordin
R3,865 Discovery Miles 38 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 has had on present-day educational policy and practice. Encouraging readers to widen their educational imagination, chapters combine secondary research from the fields of cybernetics, systems thinking, and comparative education with issues of control, prediction, and comparison as ways to tame chance in education. Using the theoretical lenses of reasoning, notions, and addendums for legitimacy to foster a critical awareness of rarely discussed educational matters, the book explores how these notions are central to the taming of chance within education. Ultimately, the authors determine the styles of reasoning that are foundational and frame how we think about, and act on, education, and thereby address one of the top priorities in educational policy, politics, and practice today. This timely book, with its unique perspective on the debates around education, will be of interest to students, researchers, and scholars in the fields of education policy and politics, international and comparative education, and theory of education. Those involved with the philosophy of education will also find the book valuable.

The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years - Quantification, Visualization, and Making... The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years - Quantification, Visualization, and Making Kinds of People (Hardcover)
Daniel Pettersson, Kai-Jung Hsiao, Thomas Popkewitz
R3,839 R2,234 Discovery Miles 22 340 Save R1,605 (42%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore the international mobilizations of the sciences related to education during the post-World War Two years. Crossing the boundaries of education and science studies, it uniquely examines how the desires of science to actualize a better society were converted to the search for remaking social life that paradoxically embodied cultural differences and social divisions. The book examines how cybernetics and systems theories traveled and were assembled to turn schools into social experiments and laboratories for change. Explored are the new comparative technologies of quantification and the visualization of educational data used in the methods of mass observation. The sciences not only about the present but also the potentialities of societies and people in the psychologies of childhood; concerns for individual development, growth, and creativity; teacher education; and the quantification and assessments of educational systems. The book also explores how the categories and classifications of the sciences formed at intersections with the humanities, the arts, and political practices. This informative volume will be of interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of curriculum studies, the history of the social sciences, the history of education, and cultural studies, and to educators and school leaders concerned with education policy.

The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years - Quantification, Visualization, and Making... The International Emergence of Educational Sciences in the Post-World War Two Years - Quantification, Visualization, and Making Kinds of People (Paperback)
Daniel Pettersson, Kai-Jung Hsiao, Thomas Popkewitz
R1,191 Discovery Miles 11 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book brings together contributions from curriculum history, cultural studies, visual cultures, and science and technology studies to explore the international mobilizations of the sciences related to education during the post-World War Two years. Crossing the boundaries of education and science studies, it uniquely examines how the desires of science to actualize a better society were converted to the search for remaking social life that paradoxically embodied cultural differences and social divisions. The book examines how cybernetics and systems theories traveled and were assembled to turn schools into social experiments and laboratories for change. Explored are the new comparative technologies of quantification and the visualization of educational data used in the methods of mass observation. The sciences not only about the present but also the potentialities of societies and people in the psychologies of childhood; concerns for individual development, growth, and creativity; teacher education; and the quantification and assessments of educational systems. The book also explores how the categories and classifications of the sciences formed at intersections with the humanities, the arts, and political practices. This informative volume will be of interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students in the fields of curriculum studies, the history of the social sciences, the history of education, and cultural studies, and to educators and school leaders concerned with education policy.

New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education - Conducting Empirically Based Research (Hardcover):... New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education - Conducting Empirically Based Research (Hardcover)
Christina Elde Molstad, Daniel Pettersson
R3,892 Discovery Miles 38 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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. The book furthers discussions on policy by looking at the kinds of activities that comparisons and quantifications lead to at an international, regional and national level. Most of the book's chapters are based on empirical research conducted in different research projects. The book thus brings all these projects together and discusses them as activities promoted by the reasoning of comparisons and quantifications. New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of comparative education, curriculum research and policy studies. It will also appeal to those in the fields of teacher education, including student teachers.

New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education - Conducting Empirically Based Research (Paperback):... New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education - Conducting Empirically Based Research (Paperback)
Christina Elde Molstad, Daniel Pettersson
R1,190 Discovery Miles 11 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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. The book furthers discussions on policy by looking at the kinds of activities that comparisons and quantifications lead to at an international, regional and national level. Most of the book's chapters are based on empirical research conducted in different research projects. The book thus brings all these projects together and discusses them as activities promoted by the reasoning of comparisons and quantifications. New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of comparative education, curriculum research and policy studies. It will also appeal to those in the fields of teacher education, including student teachers.

Education by the Numbers and the Making of Society - The Expertise of International Assessments (Paperback): Sverker Lindblad,... Education by the Numbers and the Making of Society - The Expertise of International Assessments (Paperback)
Sverker Lindblad, Daniel Pettersson, Thomas S. Popkewitz
R1,218 Discovery Miles 12 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

International statistical comparisons of nations have become commonplace in the contemporary landscape of education policy and social science. This book discusses the emergence of these international comparisons as a particular style of reasoning about education, society and science. By examining how international educational assessments have come to dominate much of contemporary policymaking concerning school system performance, the authors provide concrete case studies highlighting the preeminent role of numbers in furthering neoliberal education reform. Demonstrating how numbers serve as 'rationales' to shape and fashion social issues, this text opens new avenues for thinking about institutional and epistemological factors that produce and shape educational policy, research and schooling in transnational contexts.

Education by the Numbers and the Making of Society - The Expertise of International Assessments (Hardcover): Sverker Lindblad,... Education by the Numbers and the Making of Society - The Expertise of International Assessments (Hardcover)
Sverker Lindblad, Daniel Pettersson, Thomas S. Popkewitz
R3,882 Discovery Miles 38 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

International statistical comparisons of nations have become commonplace in the contemporary landscape of education policy and social science. This book discusses the emergence of these international comparisons as a particular style of reasoning about education, society and science. By examining how international educational assessments have come to dominate much of contemporary policymaking concerning school system performance, the authors provide concrete case studies highlighting the preeminent role of numbers in furthering neoliberal education reform. Demonstrating how numbers serve as 'rationales' to shape and fashion social issues, this text opens new avenues for thinking about institutional and epistemological factors that produce and shape educational policy, research and schooling in transnational contexts.

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