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28 SES 11, School Rethinking: Regime of Enunciation, Educational Technology and Ethno-Racial Challenges
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Aim of this presentation is to show how research on education can address ambigous issues and provide relevant results. More exactly, I try to answer how can educational research contribute in analyzing the phenomenon of school inequalities understood as form of social inequalities. To prove this, I link „classical” topics of educational research (such as school performance, school curricula, teaching activities, working in the classroom) to cultural anthropology and policy oriented accounts. In doing so, the framework of audit culture is applied; this term coined by Chris Shore and Susan Wright denotes „the way in which individuals construct themselves as professional subjects.” (Shore - Wright, in Strathern, 2000:58). When applied to education, the notion of audit refers to performance, quality, control, discipline, accreditation, good practice, and the way these principles are coined by an external from-above control and internalized by lower levels of power and agency (ibid., 61). Due to its capacity to encompass and link top-mid-low levels of the educational system, audit culture is capable to broaden the context of everyday school work, and connect it to the legal framing, policy making in the field of education. This “blowing up” of school activities and school experiences may help to answer questions like absenteeism, abandoning school, low school performance, educational inequalities etc., see and approach them as complex social phenomena. So it may help us to understand, why certain categories (migrants and undocumented people in Western Europe, ethno-racial minorities in Western and Eastern Europe) fall out from the tuition-free and compulsory system of the elementary education. Applying this framework to the field of Romany studies may have a special importance. Making the „Romani ghetto schools” or „Gypsy schools” all over Eastern Europe is commonly acknowledged as evocative of educational inequality for Roma (Danova or Surdu in Rekosh – Sleeper, 2004). These institutions are outcomes of residential segregation and the rejection of Roma children by “better” educational units; such schools have ill-equipped infrastructure, unqualified teachers, and predominantly Roma children (Rekosh – Sleeper, 2004). Although existence of the above-mentioned forms of exclusion can hardly be denied, the making of „Gypsy schools” can go back to many different reasons; this framework may show us, why?
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References
David B. Grusky - Szonja Szelényi : The Inequality Reader.Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender. Westview Press, 2011 Marylin Strathern (ed.): Audit cultures.Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy, Francis and Taylor, 2000 Edwin Rekosh - Maxine Sleeper: Separate but Unequal.Combating Discrimination Against Roma in Education: A Source Book, 2004
Programme by Network 2019
00. Central Events (Keynotes, EERA-Panel, EERJ Round Table, Invited Sessions)
Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
Network 3. Curriculum Innovation
Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
Network 7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education
Network 8. Research on Health Education
Network 9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement
Network 10. Teacher Education Research
Network 11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance
Network 12. LISnet - Library and Information Science Network
Network 13. Philosophy of Education
Network 14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research
Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
Network 16. ICT in Education and Training
Network 17. Histories of Education
Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
Network 30. Research on Environmental und Sustainability Education
Network 31. Research on Language and Education (LEd)
Network 32. Organizational Education
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