Performativity and pedagogising knowledge: globalising educational policy formation, dissemination and enactment Parlo Singhĥ. A logic of enumeration: the nature and effects of national literacy and numeracy testing in Australia Ian HardyĤ. Elastic numbers: national examinations data as a technology of government Nelli Piattoevaģ. The ‘datafication’ of early years pedagogy: ‘if the teaching is good, the data should be good and if there’s bad teaching, there is bad data’ Guy Roberts-HolmesĢ. Introduction: Education, governance and the tyranny of numbers Stephen J. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Education Policy. This collection offers a set of starting points from which we might speak back to numbers, drawing on research to explore how numbers change the way we think about ourselves and what we do. Recognising that numbers do not simply represent, but that they change things and have real effects, allows us to move beyond a system where difficult and important issues about what we want from education and from teachers are side-stepped in the push to ‘improve our numbers’. This book critically addresses some of the ways in which numbers are deployed in educational governance and practice, and some of the consequences of this deployment for what it means to be educated, to teach, and to learn. Numbers are a powerful resource for governments as a means to manage and ‘improve’ their populations, and we are increasingly represented, organized and driven by an economy of numbers, which inserts itself into more and more aspects of our lives.
Issues around big data, national test results, and output and performance statistics are now routinely reported and debated in the media. Social science researchers have become increasing attentive to the role of numbers in contemporary life. For both formats the functionality available will depend on how you access the ebook (via Bookshelf Online in your browser or via the Bookshelf app on your PC or mobile device).
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