Hamre / Morin / Ydesen Testing and Inclusive Schooling

International challenges and opportunities
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-78983-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 286 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education

Since 1994, when many countries ratified the Salamanca Statement on social and educational inclusion, worldwide efforts have been made to include all children in the general school system, and thus reduce exclusion. Testing and Inclusive Schooling provides a comparative perspective on these seemingly incompatible global agendas and efforts. With an examination of the international testing culture currently permeating national school reforms, alongside the international inclusiveness agenda, this book raises a critical and constructive discussion of these movements, which appear to support one another, yet simultaneously offer profound contradictions.

With contributions from around the world, this book analyses the dilemma arising between school reforms that urge schools to move towards a constantly higher academic level, and those who practice a politics of inclusion leading to a greater degree of student diversity in schools. In addition to the discussion of this main dilemma, the chapters within the book will examine a second one arising between global agendas and local practices and solutions. Contributions to the book consider the types of problems that arise when reforms implemented at the international level are transformed into national and local policies and practices, whilst also applying a comparative view to educational practices and solutions. As a result, the proposed book firmly places global educational efforts into perspective, by highlighting a range of different cases at both national and local levels.

Testing and Inclusive Schooling sheds light on new possibilities for educational improvements in global and local contexts and will be essential reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students interested in international and comparative education, assessment technologies and practices, inclusion, educational psychology and educational policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamre, Bjorn

Morin, Anne

Ydesen, Christian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Prüfungen und Beurteilungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1: Testing and school reforms

1. High-stakes Educational Testing Discourses and the Question of the Public Good – A Comparative Study between Scotland and the United States

Wayne Au and Christian Ydesen

2. National Tests in Regional Contexts: Practices, Culture, and Power Relations

Karen Egedal Andreasen

3. Educational Opportunities between Meritocracy and Equality: The Evolution of Higher Education Entrance Examinations in China

Yihuan Zou

4. Standardised Assessment and the Shaping of Neoliberal Student Subjectivities

Peter Kelly

Section essay: Stephen Ball

Section 2: The agenda of inclusion

5. Inclusion and Accountability: Tension in Principle and Practice

William C. Smith

6. School Reforms, Market Logic, and the Politics of Inclusion in the US and Denmark

Jessica Holloway-Libell and Bjørn Hamre

7. Testing Technologies and Practices as Part of a Democratic and Inclusive School – International Challenges and Opportunities

Ezequiel Gomez Caride and Magdalena Cardoner

8. School Development and Inclusion in England and Germany

Julie Allan and Tanja Sturm

9. Testing and Diagnosis – A Pathway to Inclusion

Janne Hedegaard Hansen and Halvor Bjørnsrud

10. Refugee Education: Achieving inclusion amid conflict

Nanette Svenson and Gonzalo Sánchez-Terán

Section essay: Roger Slee

Section 3: Inclusion and psychological assessment

11. The Significance of Pedagogical Investigations, Diagnoses, and Psychometric Tests in Inclusive Education: Case Studies from Sweden and Germany

Thomas Barow and Daniel Östlund

12. A Dialectical Perspective on the Application of Psychological Test Knowledge in Relation to an Inclusive School

Anne Morin and Lotte Hedegaard-Sørensen

13. Knowledge is Power: The Role of Assessment in Creating Inclusive Classrooms for Disadvantaged Young People

Kitty te Riele, Claire Brown and Donna Kortvelesy

14. Developing Formative Assessment Systems within a Cross-Cultural Context

Brian Abery and Renáta Tichá

Section essay: Gert Biesta

15. Conclusion

Bjørn Hamre, Anne Morin and Christian Ydesen

Über Autor(innen)

Bjørn Hamre is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Anne Morin is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Christian Ydesen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Learning and Philosophy at Aarhus University in Denmark.