Governing education without reform: the power of the example.
There is an increasing emphasis today on different forms of evidence-based policy in education. Several authors address the related emergence of new patterns of governing and describe forms of governing by numbers and related practices of governing by comparison. There is, however, less focus on the...
| Publicado en: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 36; no. 5; pp. 712 - 732 |
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Oct2015
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=103708581&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 103708581 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 01596306 54J jtl: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education issn: 01596306 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2015 vid: 36 iid: 5 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 103708581 10.1080/01596306.2014.892660 ppf: 712 ppct: 20 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 162KB tig: atl: Governing education without reform: the power of the example. aug: au: Simons, Maarten affil: Laboratory for Education and Society, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium su: Evidence-based education Education policy Globalization Education Education terminology Europe sug: subj: Europe Evidence-based education Education policy Globalization Education Education terminology keyword: education evidence-based policy globalization governing power ab: There is an increasing emphasis today on different forms of evidence-based policy in education. Several authors address the related emergence of new patterns of governing and describe forms of governing by numbers and related practices of governing by comparison. There is, however, less focus on the governmental use of soft evidence such as examples of good practice. Drawing on the analysis of governing practices in Belgium (Flanders) and Europe, this article attempts to examine in detail how soft evidence, among other elements, constitutes the current governing configuration. It is argued that this configuration includes several mechanisms that appear as evident but have far-reaching consequences: imposing spaces of meaning and discussion, deciding on what is within one's control and what is not, making people believe there is no longer something beyond themselves that is an excuse for actual self-improvement. What takes shape as part of techniques of contextualization, personalization, and permanent monitoring is ‘the power of the example’: learning from examples in view of increased performance. The conclusion expresses some concerns about the tendencies toward a manipulative society. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2015 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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