The pursuit of standards: simply managing education?
| Autor: | Daphne Meadmore |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Inclusive Education. 5:353-365 |
| ISSN: | 1464-5173 1360-3116 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13603110110056642 |
| Popis: | This paper investigates the recent move by the federal government in Australia to manage more closely the primary sector of education through the use of national performance standards. The increasing importance placed on such benchmarks in Years 3, 5 and 7 raises questions about the perceived need to survey and thereby manage the education systems by using this technology as a means of achieving the goals of performativity - accountability and competition. Setting this agenda in a globalized context, it is acknowledged that although the mechanisms for setting and raising standards are very different across the world, the discourse resonates. The paper documents the specifically Australian, and more particularly Queensland, responses to the culture of performance. In this imperative to improve educational outcomes by using national tests, the paper raises persistent questions about the suitability of such tests for children who, for a host of reasons, are different from the monocultural able-bodied mainstr... |
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