1st Edition
An Archaeology of Educational Evaluation Epistemological Spaces and Political Paradoxes
Foreword by Stephen J. Ball
Introduction: Of other evaluations in education
Questioning educational evaluation as a critical ontology of ourselves
Inhabiting other evaluative spaces
Book overview
1. Governmentality, evaluation and education: An archaeological gaze
Educational evaluation as a governmental practice
Government, evaluation and truth
Genealogy and archaeology: Two complementary gazes on regimes of government
The archaeological method within an analytics of government
The archaeological description of discursive formations
Trees of derivation, interdiscursive configurations and forms of articulation
Conclusion
2. Educational evaluation as an enunciative field
Suspending educational evaluation
A long-standing and globalised social experiment to make education governable
Educational evaluation as a form of rationality
Educational evaluation as a way of seeing and perceiving
Educational evaluation as a governmental techne
Education evaluation as identity formation
Conclusion
3. The epistemic space of educational evaluation
Educational evaluation and the project of a mathematical formalisation
Locating educational evaluation in a tridimensional epistemic space
The formation of educational evaluation as an enunciative field through transferences
Conclusion
4. Living systems
System as a grid of specification
Biology, organisational theory and educational evaluation as fields of concomitance
Conclusion
5. Forms of production
Production as a grid of specification
Political economy, management and educational evaluation as fields of concomitance
Conclusion
6. Meanings
System of meanings as a grid of specification
The study of language, sociology and educational evaluation as fields of concomitance
Conclusion
7. Educational evaluation and its epistemic and political paradoxes
The homo of educational evaluation
Epistemic and ethical paradoxes
Political paradoxes
A reflexive government of performance
8. Epistemological ruptures and the invention of other evaluations in education
Epistemological ruptures: space, time and norm
Other evaluations in education: Contesting the anthropological postulate
References
Biography
Emiliano Grimaldi is Associate Professor of Sociology of Education at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
