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| Autor/in | Anderson, Kate T. |
|---|---|
| Titel | The Discursive Construction of Lower-Tracked Students: Ideologies of Meritocracy and the Politics of Education |
| Quelle | In: Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23 (2015) 10, (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 1068 2341 |
| Schlagwörter | Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; Track System (Education); Low Achievement; Academic Ability; Vocational Education; Teaching Methods; Ethnography; At Risk Students; Interviews; Teacher Attitudes; Administrator Attitudes; Secondary Education; Singapore |
| Abstract | This study considers the discursive construction of a particular type of student in Singapore--the lowest-tracked, Normal Technical (NT), secondary school student. Shaped by meritocratic policies, educational practices, and ideologies common to many late-modern societies, students in the NT track are institutionally and individually constructed through the results of high-stakes testing regimes and essentialist views of ability. This article extends an understanding of the NT student as a widely held, deficit construction in Singapore by considering its use as an ideological label in interpersonal and institutional discourse. I consider how school leaders' and government commentaries about NT students' abilities, opportunities, and supposed characteristics provide insights about the processes through which students are recruited into institutional categories of deficit and risk--i.e. differentiated instruction, ascribed ability, and these processes' translation into educational structures and practice in the name of meritocracy. While the illustration of this phenomenon is uniquely Singaporean, implications include concerns about equity, constructions of ability, and ideologies of merit common to late modern society. (As Provided). |
| Anmerkungen | Colleges of Education at Arizona State University and the University of South Florida. c/o Editor, USF EDU162, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, FL 33620-5650. Tel: 813-974-3400; Fax: 813-974-3826; Web site: http://epaa.asu.edu |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2020/1/01 |
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