1st Edition
Measuring Up in Education Philosophical Explorations for Justice and Democracy Within and Beyond Cultures of Measurement in Educational Systems
Introduction: Measuring Up in Education
Steven A. Stolz and Scott Webster
1. Education, Measurement and the Professions: Reclaiming a space for democratic professionality in education
Gert Biesta
2. Valuing and Desiring Purposes of Education to Transcend Miseducative Measurement Practices
Robert Scott Webster
3. Getting the Measure of Measurement: Global educational opportunity
Penny Enslin and Mary Tjiattas
4. Creating the Civil Society East and West: Relationality, responsibility and the education of the humane person
Janis (John) Talivaldis Ozolinš
5. Can Educationally Significant Learning be Assessed?
Steven A. Stolz
6. The Givenness of the Human Learning Experience and Its Incompatibility with Information Analytics
David Lundie
7. A Quantum Measurement Paradigm for Educational Predicates: Implications for validity in educational measurement
Ian Cantley
8. On the Un-becoming of Measurement in Education
Nuraan Davids
Biography
Steven A. Stolz, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University, Australia. He has a diverse array of research interests, which ranges from: critical theory, epistemology, phenomenology, embodied cognition, narrative inquiry, and learning theories in psychology. At the moment, his primary area of scholarship is concerned with the relationship between theory and practice, particularly how theory informs practice, and/or how practice informs theory. Recent publications of note include: Theory and Philosophy in Education Research: Methodological Dialogues (Routledge), and MacIntyre, Rationality and Education: Against Education of Our Age (Springer).
R. Scott Webster is an Associate Professor, and the coordinator of the Curriculum, Pedagogy and Professional Learning group within the School of Education at Deakin University, Australia. His areas of research include philosophy and theories of education, teacher education, curriculum theory, existentialism, and spirituality. His authored and edited books include the following: Educating for Meaningful Lives (2009); Understanding Curriculum: The Australian Context (2019, 2nd ed., with A. Ryan); Rethinking Reflection and Ethics for Teachers (2019, with J. Whelan); and Theory and Philosophy in Education Research: Methodological Dialogues (2018).
