Making "Right" Choices? An Ethnographic Account of Creativity, Performativity and Personalised Learning Policy, Concepts and Practices

Autor/inn/en	Beach, Dennis; Dovemark, Marianne
Titel	Making "Right" Choices? An Ethnographic Account of Creativity, Performativity and Personalised Learning Policy, Concepts and Practices
Quelle	In: Oxford Review of Education, 35 (2009) 6, S.689-704 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-4985
Schlagwörter	Ethnography; Secondary Schools; Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Middle Class; Second Language Learning; Swedish; Housing; Creativity; Grade 8; Competition; Consumer Science; Immigrants; Academic Achievement; Educational Attitudes; Educational Practices; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Sekundarschule; Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Mittelschicht; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Schwedisch; Unterkunft; Kreativität; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Wettkampf; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Schulleistung; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Bildungspraxis; Schweden
Abstract	This article uses ethnographic research from two Year 8 classes in two middle-sized secondary schools about a kilometre apart in a Swedish west-coast town to examine how new policies for personalised learning have developed in practice, in the performative cultures of modern schools in a commodity society. One school stands in a predominantly middle-class area of privately owned "low-rise" houses. The other is in an area of "high-rise" rented accommodation, where the first language of many homes is not Swedish. The differences are important. According to the article, personalised learning mobilises material and social resources in these schools that support new forms of individualistic, selfish and private accumulations of education goods from public provision and a valorisation of self-interest and private value as the common basis for educational culture. The article describes this cultural production in school and links it to processes of cultural and social reproduction. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10