Session Information
23 SES 06 A, Fabricating Quality in Europe: Data and Education Governance (Part 2)
Symposium, continued from Session 23 SES 05 A
Time:
2009-09-29
10:30-12:00
Room:
HG, HS 28
Chair:
Ken Jones
Discussant:
Jane Kenway
Contribution
This paper will discuss the significant growth in data use and the changing nature of governance: it will examine data as a powerful resource that links new forms of governance preoccupied with the measurement and improvement of performance to the constitution of society as a governable domain. The data turn reflects a political rationality and shapes a social sphere that is calculable and amenable to the practices of government. The paper will look at how data govern education at the national, local and school levels, with comparisons across different contexts.Further, a discussion of key historical features of government of education in the systems under study will be examined, as well as the transition to post social democratic governance modes/ and data: the rise of NPM and its associated forms (deregulation). What are the key differences in the systems in their experience of the new ‘calculative rationality’ in education?
Method
The paper draws on the project methodology and reports on the analysis of interviews with key policy informants at European and national levels, along with critical discourse analysis of policy texts and analysis of relevant survey data. It also draws on case study evidence where appropriate.
Expected Outcomes
The paper concludes with a discussion of the ways in which systems of benchmarks and targets and that require the production of large amounts of performance data can be understood as political technologies or spectacles (Novoa and Yariv-Mashal) and the consequences for politics of education (Simola and Rinne 2008). Paper 5
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