Testing, regulation and control: shifting education narratives

Burgess, Hilary and Carter, Bob (1993). Testing, regulation and control: shifting education narratives. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 1(2) pp. 233–244.

DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link:	https://doi.org/10.1080/0965975930010204
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Abstract

This paper explores the impact of the 1988 Education Reform Act in England Wales on education ideologies. In particular it considers the changing narratives of the pupil being brought about through profiling, testing and streaming. Using Foucault's notion of 'moral technologies', the paper examines the regulation of pupil behaviour and the construction of pupil identity through systems of classification and grading. This argument is supported by school-based research into the use of testing and profiling by teachers. The paper concludes that the pedagogic aspirations of child centredness and the National Curriculum converge in the everyday practices of primary school teachers.

Item Type:	Journal Item
ISSN:	1468-1366
Extra Information:	Journal formerly known as Curriculum Studies (0965-9757) until 1999.
Academic Unit/School:	Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Research in Education and Educational Technology (CREET)
Item ID:	12895
Depositing User:	Hilary Burgess
Date Deposited:	19 Jan 2009 07:02
Last Modified:	04 Oct 2016 10:17
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/12895
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