Systems Governing the Teacher and Child: Fabricating School Communities in the Era of Education Reform

• In Event: Roundtable Session 57

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium explores the interplay between “research, politics and social analysis” currently at work in curriculum reforms in multiple countries. In order to consider the historical conditions in which reforms travel in different cultural and political sites, each paper rethinks Foucault’s notion of productive governmentality and Hacking’s idea of discursive practices in making humankinds. The phenomena of big data in Chinese education, the concept of lifelong learners in South Korea, and the standardization of North American teacher education assessments are explored as norms, patterns of practice, and systems of reasoning that construct teachers and children as particular kinds of people. This symposium provides alternative theoretical and empirical modes of thinking beyond contemporary divisions of globalization and localization.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 4: People and Politics (The Who of Curriculum)

Chair

• Thomas S. Popkewitz, University of Wisconsin

Papers

• The "Promising" Future Constructed by Big Data in Chinese Education - Xue Yin, The University of Wisconsin-Madison

• (Re)making the Future Citizen: The Lifelong Learner and Lifelong Learning in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) and South Korea - Jonghun Kim, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Impressions: Challenging Proclamations of edTPA as Education's Panacea - Corinne Ehrfurth, University of Wisconsin - Madison