Education, Assessment, and the Desire for Dissonance
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Education, Assessment, and the Desire for Dissonance

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Education, Assessment, and the Desire for Dissonance

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Education, Assessment, and the Desire for Dissonance aims to address the contentious practice of assessment in schools and universities within a poststructuralist educational paradigm. Within the theoretical paradigm of Foucault's (1994) notions of governmentality, subjectification and dissonance, the book examines why, through which and in which ways (how) educational assessment should unfold considering the challenges of globalized and cosmopolitan dimensions of educational change that have beset educational institutions. Waghid and Davids show how conceptual derivatives of Foucauldian governmentality, in particular the notions of power, panopticon and surveillance, dispositive, freedom and resistanceā€”as relational conceptsā€”affect assessment in universities and schools. The authors argue why universities and schools cannot be complacent or non-responsive to current understandings and practices of assessment. In the main, the authors contend that a Foucauldian notion of powerful, subjectified and dissonant assessment can, firstly, be extended to an Agambenian (2011) notion of a profane, denudified and rhythmic form of assessment; and secondly, be enhanced by a Derridian (1997) idea of friendship that bridges a Foucauldian view of governmental assessment with an Agambenian view of ethical assessment. Friendship allows people to act responsibly towards one anotherā€”that is, teachers and students acting responsibility towards one anotherā€”and resonates with an ongoing pursuit of rhythmic assessment practices. Such a form of assessment opens up an attentiveness to the incalculable and unexpected encounters that bear the responsibility of acting with one another. The authors conclude that an assessment with teaching and learning can transcend the limitations of an assessment of learning and an assessment for learning.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Foreword by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1. Governmentality and Assessment Practices in Neoliberal South African Educational Institutions
  7. Chapter 2. Educational Assessment and Power
  8. Chapter 3. Panopticism and Assessment
  9. Chapter 4. Towards Foucauldian Agonism in Assessment
  10. Chapter 5. Against Metrics and Measurement: A Foucauldian Perspective
  11. Chapter 6. Foucault and Discourse Analysis
  12. Chapter 7. Dissonance and Educational Assessment
  13. Chapter 8. Educational Assessment and Dissonance: Invoking Rhythm, Profanations, and Denudation
  14. Chapter 9. Bridging Foucault and Agamben: Towards a Derridian Approach of Assessment
  15. Chapter 10. Teaching and Learning Without Assessment
  16. Coda on the Ethical Dimensions of Assessment within Teaching and Learning
  17. Index