Towards a Neoliberal Education System in Queensland: Preliminary Notes on Senior Secondary Schooling Reforms

Autor/in	Rodgers Gibson, Morgan
Titel	Towards a Neoliberal Education System in Queensland: Preliminary Notes on Senior Secondary Schooling Reforms
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 17 (2019) 8, S.983-999 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Rodgers Gibson, Morgan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.1177/1478210319833250
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Secondary Schools; Educational History; Foreign Countries; Neoliberalism; Social Systems; Standards; Reputation; College Admission; National Curriculum; Ideology; Student Evaluation; Secondary School Students; College Entrance Examinations; Human Capital; Reports; Role of Education; Educational Policy; Labor Force Development; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Sekundarschule; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Ausland; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Social system; Soziales System; Standard; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Ideologie; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Sekundarschüler; Aufnahmeprüfung; Humankapital; Abschlussbericht; Berichten; Bildungsauftrag; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Arbeitskräftebestand; Australien
Abstract	Neoliberalism is often understood as being both an epoch of capitalism and a zealous ideological commitment to the primacy of private property and free markets. In practice, it has tended towards mobilising state power in the interests of capital, remaking societies and individuals in this process. Perhaps inevitably, education systems, the world over, have been reformed in light of neoliberalism's overarching imperatives. It is in this light that we can best understand and make sense of recent reforms to Queensland's senior secondary schooling system. While some details continue to be ironed out, the reformed system will revolve around three main planks: (a) an assessment model combining school-based and common external assessment, (b) a process that quantifies and standardises school-based assessment through external review processes and (c) a transition away from the Overall Position (OP) rank towards an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR). These changes to assessment and tertiary admission represent a pivot away from Queensland's historical commitments to school-based assessment and teacher and curriculum flexibility towards a standardised national system of curriculum and external assessment. Ultimately, the reforms embody the ideological commitments of neoliberalism, perpetuating schools as producers of human capital. Hence, Queensland's senior secondary schooling reforms ought to be understood through two different frames: firstly, as embodying the dominant ideological imperatives of neoliberalism and, secondly, that education is, within this context, being reconstituted to meet the perceived needs of capital. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01