Journal article
Manipulating the data: Teaching and NAPLAN in the control society
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol.35(1), pp.129-142
2014
Abstract
High-stakes testing is changing what it means to be a ‘good teacher’ in the contemporary school. This paper uses Deleuze and Guattari’s ideas on the control society and dividuation in the context of NAPLAN testing in Australia to suggest that the database generates new understandings of the ‘good teacher’. Media reports are used to look at how teachers are responding to the high-stakes database through manipulating the data. This paper argues that manipulating the data is a regrettable, but logical, response to manifestations of teaching where only the data counts.
Details
- Title
- Manipulating the data: Teaching and NAPLAN in the control society
- Authors/Creators
- G. Thompson (Author/Creator)I. Cook (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol.35(1), pp.129-142
- Publisher
- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
- Number of pages
- 14
- Identifiers
- 991005543890207891
- Copyright
- 2012 Taylor and Francis
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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