Producing Calculable Worlds: Education at a Glance

Autor/in	Gorur, Radhika
Titel	Producing Calculable Worlds: Education at a Glance
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 36 (2015) 4, S.578-595 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2015.974942
Schlagwörter	Educational Indicators; Data Collection; Sociology; International Cooperation; Educational Policy; Measurement Techniques; Social Science Research; Statistical Analysis; Research Methodology; Educational Research; Performance Based Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Data capture; Datensammlung; Soziologie; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Messtechnik; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Statistische Analyse; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Leistungsermittlung
Abstract	The OECD's international education indicators have become very influential in contemporary education policies. Although these indicators are now routinely, annually published in the form of "Education at a Glance," the calculability upon which the indicators depend was an achievement that involved the mobilisation of a huge machinery of expertise, trust, pragmatism and other resources. This paper traces the ways in which varied constraints were addressed, interests translated, categories defined, classifications negotiated, frameworks agreed upon, choices made, methodologies established and protocols developed, as the indicators exercise moved from being nearly impossible to becoming routinely produced. Using resources from Science and Technology Studies (STS), it demonstrates that the work of making such assemblages is both instrumentalist and performative, and argues for an undertaking of critique as a moral enterprise. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01