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| Title: |
Devising inequality: a Bernsteinian analysis of high-stakes testing and social reproduction in education |
| Author: |
Au, Wayne W. |
| Appeared in: |
British journal of sociology of education |
| Paging: | Volume 29 (2008) nr. 6 pages 639-651 |
| Year: |
2008-11 |
| Contents: |
High-stakes, standardized testing has become the central tool for educational reform and regulation in many industrialized nations in the world, and it has been implemented with particular intensity in the United States and the United Kingdom. Drawing on research on high-stakes testing and its effect on classroom practice and pedagogic discourse in the United States, the present paper applies Bernstein's concept of the pedagogic device to explain how high-stakes tests operate as a relay in the reproduction of dominant social relations in education. This analysis finds that high-stakes tests, through the structuring of knowledge, actively select and regulate student identities, and thus contribute to the selection and regulation of students' educational success. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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