1st Edition
Governing by Numbers Education, governance, and the tyranny of numbers
Introduction: Education, governance and the tyranny of numbers Stephen J. Ball
1. The ‘datafication’ of early years pedagogy: ‘if the teaching is good, the data should be good and if there’s bad teaching, there is bad data’ Guy Roberts-Holmes
2. Elastic numbers: national examinations data as a technology of government Nelli Piattoeva
3. A logic of enumeration: the nature and effects of national literacy and numeracy testing in Australia Ian Hardy
4. Performativity and pedagogising knowledge: globalising educational policy formation, dissemination and enactment Parlo Singh
5. International rankings and the contest for university hegemony Imanol Ordorika and Marion Lloyd
6. Evaluation policy in education: the effects of international standards and performativity on Brazil’s postgraduate programmes of excellence Regina Célia Linhares Hostins
7. State school inspection policy in Norway and Sweden (2002–2012): a reconfiguration of governing modes? Jeffrey Brooks Hall and Kirsten Sivesind
Biography
Stephen J. Ball is the Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology of Education at the Institute of Education, University College London, UK. He was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2006, and is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is the co-founder and Managing Editor of the Journal of Education Policy. His main areas of interest are in sociologically informed education policy analysis and the relationships between education, education policy, and social class. His books include How Schools do Policy (with Meg Maguire and Annette Braun, 2012), Global Education Inc. (2012), Networks, New Governance and Education (with Carolina Junemann, 2012), and Foucault, Power and Education (2013).
