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The relations between the discourses of educational assessment and the psychology of motivation and their constructions of personal reality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11159729 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pat Tunstall (University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 505-520 |
| Publication date | 2003-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Educational Research Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-1926 • E-ISSN: 1469-3518 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01411920301845 |
| OpenAlex | W2067206516 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
This article engages critically in a study of two areas of academic discourse, educational assessment and the psychology of motivation, in order to examine the dialectical relationships between their modes of classification, ordering and defining, and the construction of personal realities. Its approach draws on post‐structuralist thinking associated with critical discourse analysis and Foucault's genealogical method. The first section raises questions about the use of metaphor and its function; the second provides ‘readings’ of three research texts on children's attributions for their different ideological assumptions; the third brings together issues about the ‘subject’ and ‘emancipation’. The text raises questions about educational assessment's positioning within a paradigm associated with the social construction of knowledge
Attribution · Dialectic · Discourse analysis · Discursive psychology · Educational psychology · Emancipation · Epistemology · Ideology · Linguistics · Metaphor · Pedagogy · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Psychology · Social Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
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Discipline and Punish
Linguistic Processes in Sociocultural Practice (Language Education)
Discourse and social change
How To Do Things With Words
Critical Practice
Cultural History and Education
Foucault's Challenge
Archaeology of Knowledge
Language and Discourse
I’ ll be a nothing’
The Child's Understanding of the Causes of Academic Success and Failure
Changing the Subject
Metaphors we live by
Growing Critical
Discipline and Punish
Breaking the Consensus
A theory of motivation for some classroom experiences
Deconstruction and the Interests of Theory
The Postmodern Condition
| Citations per year | 0.11 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2009 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |