New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education

Conducting Empirically Based Research

Christina Elde Mølstad, Daniel Pettersson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9780367731236
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429877025
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education discusses contemporary trends and activities related to comparisons and quantifications. It aims to help scholars to conduct empirically based research on how comparisons and quantifications are instituted in practice at different levels in the educational system.

The book furthers discussions on policy by looking at the kinds of activities that comparisons and quantifications lead to at an international, regional and national level. Most of the book's chapters are based on empirical research conducted in different research projects. The book thus brings all these projects together and discusses them as activities promoted by the reasoning of comparisons and quantifications.

New Practices of Comparison, Quantification and Expertise in Education will be of great interest to academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of comparative education, curriculum research and policy studies. It will also appeal to those in the fields of teacher education, including student teachers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 A chimera of quantifications and comparisons: the changing of educational ‘expertise’
• 2 Society speaks back: on the intimacy and complexity of comparative education research on a welfare state Agora
• 3 Three waves of education standardisation: how the curriculum changed from a matter of concern to a matter of fact
• 4 Old power, new power and ontological flattening: the global ‘data revolution’ in education
• 5 Intellectual and social organisation of international large-scale assessment research
• 6 Evidently, the broker appears as the new whizz-kid on the educational Agora
• 7 Bridging worlds and spreading light: intermediary actors and the translation of knowledge for policy in Portugal
• 8 A data-driven school crisis
• 9 Co-production of knowledge on the educational Agora: media activities and ‘logics’
• 10 The reception of large-scale assessments in China and India
• 11 Education export and import: new activities on the educational Agora
• 12 Measuring what we value, or valuing what we can measure? Performance indicators, school choice and the curriculum
• 13 Supplementary tutoring in Sweden and Russia: a safety net woven with numbers
• 14 School certification: marketing schools by appearance
• A summary and an invitation
• List of contributors
• Index