Curiosity Killed by SATs: An Investigation of Mathematics Lessons within An English Primary School

Autor/inn/en	Ward, Gavin; Quennerstedt, Mikael
Titel	Curiosity Killed by SATs: An Investigation of Mathematics Lessons within An English Primary School
Quelle	In: Education 3-13, 47 (2019) 3, S.261-276 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Ward, Gavin) ORCID (Quennerstedt, Mikael)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4279
DOI	10.1080/03004279.2018.1429479
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Mathematics Instruction; Elementary Schools; Video Technology; Accountability; National Competency Tests; High Stakes Tests; Inspection; Governance; Self Determination; Educational Policy; Classroom Environment; Teacher Behavior; Student Behavior; Security (Psychology); Self Control; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Elementary school; Grundschule; Volksschule; Verantwortung; Prüfverfahren; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Selbstbestimmung; Politics of education; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Teacher behaviour; Lehrerverhalten; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Security; Psychology; Sicherheit; Selbstbeherrschung
Abstract	By taking both pupils' and teachers' actions as the point of departure, this study aimed to understand governance within a primary school classroom. Video footage was recorded in an English primary school in which mathematics happened to be the focus. This data was analysed to identify the directions of both governance and self-governance and to help understand the consequences for pupil and teacher subjectivities. Our findings revealed the central role of national testing and inspection policy in constituting staff as 'evidence hunters' and pupils as 'confessant and unafraid producers of evidence'. Both staff and pupils were complicit in creating sufficient space for everyone to fulfil their obligation to be accountable to the school's senior leadership team (SLT), school inspectors and national attainment tests. As a consequence, mathematical knowing was simplified into a discipline of reproducing testable calculation, in which other possibilities of mathematical knowing were foreclosed. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01