The literacy practices of recording achievement
How a text mediates between the local and the global
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11489232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Burgess (0000-0002-7033-9486, a Lancaster Literacy Research Centre , Lancaster University , UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-62 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Education Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0268-0939 • E-ISSN: 1464-5106 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02680930701754088 |
| OpenAlex | W1988537428 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 25 |
The aim of this article is to show the importance of literacy practices in the implementation of education policy, using as an example the system of student assessment in adult literacy education. The author reports on an ethnographic study of the practice of planning learning and recording progress through the use of individual learning plans (ILPs) in one classroom in order to show how teachers and students are co‐opted as active agents into the processes of Skills for Life policy. She aims to show how some concepts from literacy studies, in particular the relationship between literacy practices and literacy events, can fruitfully be brought together with ideas about the temporal dimensions of the local and the global to uncover how policy is instantiated in classroom practice and how the ILP mediates power and control. She argues that by sanctioning some definitions of literacy and learning whilst excluding others, ILPs construct the identities of teachers and learners by specifying desirable abilities. She suggests that discussion of the nature of ILPs and of their function within systems of performance measurement should become part of the explicit content of literacy education
Construct (python library · Critical literacy · Ethnography · Function (biology · Literacy · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Sociology · Computer Science · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology
Beyond Economic Interests
The politics of educational policy studies
The use of space-time to construct identity and context
Global, regional and local influences on adult literacy policy in England
Unruly Practices
Changing policy discourses
The development of shared understandings of assessment policy
Generating, comparing, manipulating, categorizing
Peopling’ curriculum policy production
Lost in translation
Beyond Communities of Practice
Local Literacies
Communities of Practice
Education Policy
Erving Goffman
Literacy in Theory and Practice
We Have Never Been Human
Curricular form and the Logic of Technical Control
Texts, Facts and Femininity
On Interobjectivity
Narrowed horizons and the impoverishment of educational discourse
The anatomy of accountability
The European knowledge society and the diminishing state control of education
The choreography of accountability
Putting words in their mouths
Literacy
Across the Scales of Time
Code and Habitus
Limits of the Local
Timescapes of Flexibility and Insecurity
What Is Policy? Texts, Trajectories and Toolboxes
The temporal gaze
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,59 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2016 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |