The «Datafication» of TeachingCan Teachers Speak Back to the Numbers?
Howard Stevenson
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Teachers face considerable and increasing pressure in their working lives. Labor intensification compels
teachers to work faster, harder, and longer. However, teachers also experience increasing external
control over what they teach and how they teach. These processes are increasingly made possible by
the “datafication” of teaching, whereby the educational process is increasingly transformed into numbers
that allow measurement, comparison, and the functioning of high-stakes accountability systems
linked to rewards and sanctions. Although there is no question that being able to use student assessment
data to support learning has an important place in teachers’ repertoire of skills, “datafication”
refers to the use of data in a way that has become increasingly detached from supporting learning
and is much more concerned with the management of teacher performance as an end in itself. This
article presents two currents of critical thought in relation to teachers’ work, labor process theory
and poststructural analyses grounded in the concept of performativity, and discusses them as a way
of “making sense” of teachers’ work and the “datafication” of teaching, with a particular focus on
questions of control and resistance.
It seeks to understand why, despite the pressures on teachers, teacher resistance has seldom developed in ways, at times, or on a scale that both experience and theoretical insight might have predicted. There are clearly significant differences between the two perspectives presented in this article, not least in the ways they conceptualize and explain “resistance.” However, common ground is identifiable and the two theoretical approaches can be bridged in a form that can be productive for those seeking to “speak back to the numbers.” In looking to broker this theoretical divide, I argue that frame theory, rooted within the sociology of social movements, can offer a fruitful way of theory bridging, while also providing the basis for a wider politics of transformation. The article offers several examples of grassroots initiatives formed to oppose standardized testing in England that provide practical examples of this “ideas work” in action.
Von Howard Stevenson im Text The «Datafication» of Teaching (2017) auf Seite 10It seeks to understand why, despite the pressures on teachers, teacher resistance has seldom developed in ways, at times, or on a scale that both experience and theoretical insight might have predicted. There are clearly significant differences between the two perspectives presented in this article, not least in the ways they conceptualize and explain “resistance.” However, common ground is identifiable and the two theoretical approaches can be bridged in a form that can be productive for those seeking to “speak back to the numbers.” In looking to broker this theoretical divide, I argue that frame theory, rooted within the sociology of social movements, can offer a fruitful way of theory bridging, while also providing the basis for a wider politics of transformation. The article offers several examples of grassroots initiatives formed to oppose standardized testing in England that provide practical examples of this “ideas work” in action.
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