How to Achieve a 'Revolution': Assembling the Subnational, National and Global in the Formation of a New, 'Scientific' Assessment in Japan

Autor/inn/en	Takayama, Keita; Lingard, Bob
Titel	How to Achieve a 'Revolution': Assembling the Subnational, National and Global in the Formation of a New, 'Scientific' Assessment in Japan
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 19 (2021) 2, S.228-244 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Takayama, Keita) ORCID (Lingard, Bob)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
DOI	10.1080/14767724.2021.1878016
Schlagwörter	Public Policy; Psychometrics; Public Officials; International Organizations; Educational Policy; Policy Formation; Power Structure; Nationalism; Global Approach; Foreign Countries; Governance; School Districts; Student Evaluation; Evidence Based Practice; Scientific Research; Academic Achievement; Achievement Tests; International Assessment; Secondary School Students; Boards of Education; Network Analysis; Administrator Surveys; Teacher Surveys; English (Second Language); Language Tests; Second Language Learning; Educational Improvement; Educational Change; Public Agencies; Japan (Tokyo); Program for International Student Assessment; Teaching and Learning International Survey (NCES); Test of English as a Foreign Language + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentliche Ordnung; Psychometry; Psychometrie; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politische Betätigung; Nationalismus; Globales Denken; Ausland; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; School district; Schulbezirk; Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Schulleistung; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Sekundarschüler; Ausschuss; Netzplantechnik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Language test; Sprachtest; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Bildungsreform; Öffentliche Einrichtung
Abstract	This paper traces the complexities, contingencies and tensions involved in the creation of a new, 'scientific' assessment in what we call Prefecture A in Japan. We start with a thick, granular description of the complicated and ongoing narrative of a new policy emergence. This descriptive account serves as a precursor to our application of an Actor Network Theory (ANT) approach, particularly the concepts of assemblage and assembling, while at the same time eschewing its depoliticising effect of a flat ontology. Our account details that much work and strategising went into achieving the new assessment but also into holding it in place. This included, strategising inside and across the Prefecture, with the National Ministry, with edu-businesses that had psychometric expertise, with politicians and the board of education and with the OECD and the Director of its Education and Skills Directorate. The analysis illustrates the complex, multi-directional and topological cartographies of power that now work in contemporary education policy processes. As such, we suggest a way to transcend the binary of methodological nationalism and methodological globalism evident in much policy sociology in education work. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01