Classroom bodies
Affect, body language, and discourse when schoolchildren encounter national tests in mathematics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12230495 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Silfver (0000-0001-6413-6538, Umeå University, corresponding author), Maritha Jacobsson (0009-0001-4610-0950, Umeå University), Linda Arnell (0000-0001-8514-8511, Umeå University), Hanna Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist (Umeå University), Maria Härgestam (0000-0003-0680-9962, Umeå University), Magdalena Sjöberg (Umeå University), Ulrika Widding (0000-0001-8399-0983, Umeå University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 682-696 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0954-0253 • E-ISSN: 1360-0516 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09540253.2018.1473557 |
| OpenAlex | W2803646201 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 39 |
The aim of this paper is to analyse how Swedish grade three children are discursively positioned as pupils when they are taking national tests in mathematics and when they reflect on the testing situation afterwards. With support from theories about affective-discursive assemblages, we explore children’s body language, emotions, and talk in light of the two overarching discourses that we believe frame the classroom: the ‘testing discourse’ and the ‘development discourse’. Through the disciplinary power of these main discourses children struggle to conduct themselves in order to become recognized as intelligible subjects and ‘ideal pupils’. The analysis, when taking into account how affects and discourses intertwine, shows that children can be in ‘untroubled’, ‘troubled’, or ambivalent subject positions
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |