Cheating or Cheated? Surviving Secondary Exit Exams in a Neoliberal Era

Autor/inn/en	Buckner, Elizabeth; Hodges, Rebecca
Titel	Cheating or Cheated? Surviving Secondary Exit Exams in a Neoliberal Era
Quelle	In: Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 46 (2016) 4, S.603-623 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-7925
DOI	10.1080/03057925.2015.1088379
Schlagwörter	Neoliberalism; Cheating; Exit Examinations; Secondary School Students; High Stakes Tests; Comparative Education; Foreign Countries; Discourse Analysis; Grades (Scholastic); Comparative Analysis; Networks; Cooperation; Creativity; Futures (of Society); Outcomes of Education; Ethics; Correlation; Student Attitudes; Qualitative Research; Ethnography; Jordan; Morocco + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Prellen; Final examination; Abschlussprüfung; Sekundarschüler; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Ausland; Diskursanalyse; Notenspiegel; Co-operation; Kooperation; Kreativität; Future; Society; Zukunft; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Ethik; Korrelation; Schülerverhalten; Qualitative Forschung; Ethnografie; Marokko
Abstract	Cheating on exams is a rampant and highly developed practice among youth in the Arab world, often involving elaborate networks, advanced technology and adult authorities. Rather than viewing cheating as mere laziness or immorality, this article interrogates the social meanings of cheating by comparing the practices and discourses of cheating on high-stakes high school exit exams--the "tawjihi" in Jordan and the "Baccalauréat" in Morocco. Using informal networks to obtain higher grades, and thereby better futures, cheating is one way youth contest the putative meritocracy of the state to reclaim a sense of control over their lives. Ironically, cheaters develop twenty-first century skills of collaboration, networking and creativity outside the school in order to evade the nation's formal system of educational sorting. We argue that cheating illuminates the declining effectiveness of the public school in the nation-building project and the simultaneous emergence of the outcomes-oriented "neoliberal student." (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01