Neoliberal Logics: An Analysis of Texas's STAAR Exam Writing Prompts

Autor/inn/en	Jacobson, Brad; Bach, Amy
Titel	Neoliberal Logics: An Analysis of Texas's STAAR Exam Writing Prompts
Quelle	In: Journal of Literacy Research, 54 (2022) 1, S.5-27 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Jacobson, Brad)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1086-296X
DOI	10.1177/1086296X221076421
Schlagwörter	Neoliberalism; Educational Change; Standardized Tests; Achievement Tests; Writing Tests; Prompting; Discourse Analysis; High School Students; Grammar; Writing Evaluation; Ideology; Socialization; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Bildungsreform; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Writing test; Schreibtest; Benutzerführung; Diskursanalyse; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Grammatik; Ideologie; Socialisation; Sozialisation
Abstract	This article adds to a growing body of research tracing the influence of neoliberal education reforms on policy and practice by showing the ways in which student writers are positioned within market-oriented discourses and values through Texas state exam writing prompts. As a genre-in-use, the writing prompts are seemingly mundane texts that privilege certain perspectives for viewing the world. This article uses critical discourse analysis to examine seven years of Texas state exam high school writing prompts, focusing on how the grammatical design of the prompts and the recontextualization of informational texts or quotes demonstrate traces of neoliberal logics such as individualism, self-reliance, and superficial multiculturalism. We call for critical pedagogies that help teachers and students resist the naturalization of dominant discourses and imagine collective responses to creating a more just world. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2022/4/11