M Madsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Madsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Madsen |
| SIGNATURE | MADSEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4818-0525 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction: Time and temporality in the datafied governance of education
This special issue offers an exploration of the interaction of datafication and temporality in educational governance and demonstrates the many ways in which this interaction can be framed, theorized, conceptualized, and studied, adopting poststructuralist, sociomaterial, and new materialist frameworks. The special issue defines temporality as manifestations of time in human existance (Hoy in Kitchin, 2023: 4), and touches upon questions of tempo…
Beyond neoliberal policy ideologies: Tracing characteristics of social democratic ideologies in contemporary Danish education policy
Over the past decades, education policy research has constructed a dominant narrative of the proliferation of neoliberalism across much of the world. However, this narrative has often treated neoliberalism as a self-evident phenomenon, sometimes ambiguously defined and with limited critical reflection on its explanatory power. In this paper, we critically examine whether the neoliberalism narrative still holds by exploring the enduring influence …
Un)certain and (ir)regular futures: Graph Chart Visualizations of Forecasting in Higher Education
While previous educational governance literature on datafication has paid attention to comparison across spatial entities like countries and schools, temporal comparison in terms of progression (including prediction) has received less attention. One of the material forms in which progression and prediction data are circulated is the visual form of the time-series graph chart. The article deploys social topology to analyze the relational and geome…
Situated data encounters: How Teachers Animate (And Are Animated By) Data Visualisations in Literacy Coaching Work
Digital learning materials and digital testing have become pervasive in Danish primary and lower secondary classrooms. These digital learning materials and tests offer teachers with quick overviews of student performance through data visualisations. However, few studies have examined the role of these types of data visualisations in shaping teachers’ practices. In this article, we explore how teachers animate (and are animated by) data visualisat…
Validation of the Danish Translation of the Revised Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ30) and Possible Impact of Setting, Dose and Intention
Research suggests positive changes in both well-being and psychiatric symptoms following a psychedelic experience. One explanation may be the ability of psychedelic compounds to occasion mystical-type experiences. The Revised Mystical Experiences Questionnaire (MEQ30) is designed to assess the intensity and quality of such experiences. We examined the validity, reliability, and factor structure of a Danish translation of the MEQ30 in one sample o…
Performance-based funding and institutional practices of performance prediction
Since the financial crisis in 2007-2008, higher education systems across Europe have increasingly become subject to performance-based funding reforms. Performance-based funding in higher education thus constitutes one of the most tangible and widespread examples of how performance data are incorporated into governance instruments in educational governance, and in consequence, how a mundane management practice like budgeting has become a data prac…
Set in motion by data: Human and data intra-actions in educational governance
With the increased use of data in the governance of education, studies on how human beings interact with data become increasingly important. Recent scholarship has conceptualized human responses to data through the notion of affectivity. While this conceptualization offers a viable alternative to previous rational choice theorizations of human responses to data that over-emphasize rational though, it in turn under-emphasizes rational thought. Thi…
Competitive/comparative governance mechanisms beyond marketization: A refined concept of competition in education governance research
Much contemporary scholarship claims that competition has become a key characteristic of educational governance, and that competition occurs in educational governance as a consequence of the comparative turn in education. This article problematizes the widespread application of the concept of competition as a relevant term across (seemingly) all governance contexts, and seeks to overcome this problem by theorizing competition as an entangled phen…
An affirmative-diffractive re-reading of the policy instrumentation approach through agential realism and the accreditation instrument
Inspired by the ‘material turn’ in the social sciences, education scholars have engaged in discussions on various materialist modes of policy analysis for a long time now. This paper continues these discussions by experimenting with an agential realist re-reading of the instrumentation approach originally proposed by Lascoumes & Le Gales. Through an affirmative-diffractive methodology, the paper suggests that policy instruments can be conceptuali…
The configurative agency of metrics in education: A research agenda involving a different engagement with data
The increased use of quantitative education data is often regarded by scholars as evidence of the emergence of’governing by numbers’. These scholars ascribe major stakeholders such as the OECD and nation states agency as they produce, distribute and consume data, and respond to these with policy and management initiatives. This paper argues that metrics themselves have a configurative agency that affects education in terms of educational ideas an…
P1-465 Education and cardiovascular disease incidence in Danish men and women. A discordant twin pair design
Introduction Social inequality in cardiovascular disease (CVD) is well-established. However, the causal paths driving this association are unclear. To disentangle the effect of education from underlying background factors we investigated the association between education and the risk of CVD using twin data to adjust for familial confounding. Methods The study was based on data from the Danish Twin Registry linked to official registers in Statisti…
Parents’ labour market participation as a predictor of children’s health and wellbeing: A comparative study in five Nordic countries
Objective: To study the association between parents’ labour market participation and children’s health and wellbeing. Design: Parent reported data on health and wellbeing among their children from the survey Health and welfare among children and adolescents in the Nordic countries, 1996. A cross sectional study of random samples of children and their families in five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). Participants: …
Effect of water coagulation by seeds of Moringa oleifera on bacterial concentrations
Un)certain and (ir)regular futures: Graph Chart Visualizations of Forecasting in Higher Education
While previous educational governance literature on datafication has paid attention to comparison across spatial entities like countries and schools, temporal comparison in terms of progression (including prediction) has received less attention. One of the material forms in which progression and prediction data are circulated is the visual form of the time-series graph chart. The article deploys social topology to analyze the relational and geome…
The configurative agency of metrics in education: A research agenda involving a different engagement with data
The increased use of quantitative education data is often regarded by scholars as evidence of the emergence of’governing by numbers’. These scholars ascribe major stakeholders such as the OECD and nation states agency as they produce, distribute and consume data, and respond to these with policy and management initiatives. This paper argues that metrics themselves have a configurative agency that affects education in terms of educational ideas an…
Set in motion by data: Human and data intra-actions in educational governance
With the increased use of data in the governance of education, studies on how human beings interact with data become increasingly important. Recent scholarship has conceptualized human responses to data through the notion of affectivity. While this conceptualization offers a viable alternative to previous rational choice theorizations of human responses to data that over-emphasize rational though, it in turn under-emphasizes rational thought. Thi…
An affirmative-diffractive re-reading of the policy instrumentation approach through agential realism and the accreditation instrument
Inspired by the ‘material turn’ in the social sciences, education scholars have engaged in discussions on various materialist modes of policy analysis for a long time now. This paper continues these discussions by experimenting with an agential realist re-reading of the instrumentation approach originally proposed by Lascoumes & Le Gales. Through an affirmative-diffractive methodology, the paper suggests that policy instruments can be conceptuali…
Parents’ labour market participation as a predictor of children’s health and wellbeing: A comparative study in five Nordic countries
Objective: To study the association between parents’ labour market participation and children’s health and wellbeing. Design: Parent reported data on health and wellbeing among their children from the survey Health and welfare among children and adolescents in the Nordic countries, 1996. A cross sectional study of random samples of children and their families in five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). Participants: …
Situated data encounters: How Teachers Animate (And Are Animated By) Data Visualisations in Literacy Coaching Work
Digital learning materials and digital testing have become pervasive in Danish primary and lower secondary classrooms. These digital learning materials and tests offer teachers with quick overviews of student performance through data visualisations. However, few studies have examined the role of these types of data visualisations in shaping teachers’ practices. In this article, we explore how teachers animate (and are animated by) data visualisat…
Effect of water coagulation by seeds of Moringa oleifera on bacterial concentrations
Parents’ labour market participation as a predictor of children’s health and wellbeing: A comparative study in five Nordic countries
Objective: To study the association between parents’ labour market participation and children’s health and wellbeing. Design: Parent reported data on health and wellbeing among their children from the survey Health and welfare among children and adolescents in the Nordic countries, 1996. A cross sectional study of random samples of children and their families in five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). Participants: …
P1-465 Education and cardiovascular disease incidence in Danish men and women. A discordant twin pair design
Introduction Social inequality in cardiovascular disease (CVD) is well-established. However, the causal paths driving this association are unclear. To disentangle the effect of education from underlying background factors we investigated the association between education and the risk of CVD using twin data to adjust for familial confounding. Methods The study was based on data from the Danish Twin Registry linked to official registers in Statisti…
The configurative agency of metrics in education: A research agenda involving a different engagement with data
The increased use of quantitative education data is often regarded by scholars as evidence of the emergence of’governing by numbers’. These scholars ascribe major stakeholders such as the OECD and nation states agency as they produce, distribute and consume data, and respond to these with policy and management initiatives. This paper argues that metrics themselves have a configurative agency that affects education in terms of educational ideas an…
Competitive/comparative governance mechanisms beyond marketization: A refined concept of competition in education governance research
Much contemporary scholarship claims that competition has become a key characteristic of educational governance, and that competition occurs in educational governance as a consequence of the comparative turn in education. This article problematizes the widespread application of the concept of competition as a relevant term across (seemingly) all governance contexts, and seeks to overcome this problem by theorizing competition as an entangled phen…
An affirmative-diffractive re-reading of the policy instrumentation approach through agential realism and the accreditation instrument
Inspired by the ‘material turn’ in the social sciences, education scholars have engaged in discussions on various materialist modes of policy analysis for a long time now. This paper continues these discussions by experimenting with an agential realist re-reading of the instrumentation approach originally proposed by Lascoumes & Le Gales. Through an affirmative-diffractive methodology, the paper suggests that policy instruments can be conceptuali…
Set in motion by data: Human and data intra-actions in educational governance
With the increased use of data in the governance of education, studies on how human beings interact with data become increasingly important. Recent scholarship has conceptualized human responses to data through the notion of affectivity. While this conceptualization offers a viable alternative to previous rational choice theorizations of human responses to data that over-emphasize rational though, it in turn under-emphasizes rational thought. Thi…
Validation of the Danish Translation of the Revised Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ30) and Possible Impact of Setting, Dose and Intention
Research suggests positive changes in both well-being and psychiatric symptoms following a psychedelic experience. One explanation may be the ability of psychedelic compounds to occasion mystical-type experiences. The Revised Mystical Experiences Questionnaire (MEQ30) is designed to assess the intensity and quality of such experiences. We examined the validity, reliability, and factor structure of a Danish translation of the MEQ30 in one sample o…
Performance-based funding and institutional practices of performance prediction
Since the financial crisis in 2007-2008, higher education systems across Europe have increasingly become subject to performance-based funding reforms. Performance-based funding in higher education thus constitutes one of the most tangible and widespread examples of how performance data are incorporated into governance instruments in educational governance, and in consequence, how a mundane management practice like budgeting has become a data prac…
Introduction: Time and temporality in the datafied governance of education
This special issue offers an exploration of the interaction of datafication and temporality in educational governance and demonstrates the many ways in which this interaction can be framed, theorized, conceptualized, and studied, adopting poststructuralist, sociomaterial, and new materialist frameworks. The special issue defines temporality as manifestations of time in human existance (Hoy in Kitchin, 2023: 4), and touches upon questions of tempo…
Beyond neoliberal policy ideologies: Tracing characteristics of social democratic ideologies in contemporary Danish education policy
Over the past decades, education policy research has constructed a dominant narrative of the proliferation of neoliberalism across much of the world. However, this narrative has often treated neoliberalism as a self-evident phenomenon, sometimes ambiguously defined and with limited critical reflection on its explanatory power. In this paper, we critically examine whether the neoliberalism narrative still holds by exploring the enduring influence …
Un)certain and (ir)regular futures: Graph Chart Visualizations of Forecasting in Higher Education
While previous educational governance literature on datafication has paid attention to comparison across spatial entities like countries and schools, temporal comparison in terms of progression (including prediction) has received less attention. One of the material forms in which progression and prediction data are circulated is the visual form of the time-series graph chart. The article deploys social topology to analyze the relational and geome…
Situated data encounters: How Teachers Animate (And Are Animated By) Data Visualisations in Literacy Coaching Work
Digital learning materials and digital testing have become pervasive in Danish primary and lower secondary classrooms. These digital learning materials and tests offer teachers with quick overviews of student performance through data visualisations. However, few studies have examined the role of these types of data visualisations in shaping teachers’ practices. In this article, we explore how teachers animate (and are animated by) data visualisat…
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