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Burgess, Hilary and Carter, Bob
(1993).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0965975930010204
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.
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- Item ORO ID
- 12895
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1468-1366
- Extra Information
- Journal formerly known as Curriculum Studies (0965-9757) until 1999.
- Academic Unit or School
- Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)
- Depositing User
- Hilary Burgess