Education as a ‘risky business’
Theorising student and teacher learning in complex times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11166181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Hardy (0000-0002-8124-8766, The University of Queensland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 375-394 |
| Publication date | 2015-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0142-5692 • E-ISSN: 1465-3346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01425692.2013.829746 |
| OpenAlex | W2068238430 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper employs sociological literature on risk and the commodification of education to explain current schooling practices in a context of increased concerns about students’ behaviour and results on standardised tests of achievement. Drawing upon teacher and student learning practices in three school sites in south-east Queensland, Australia, the article reveals how specific tests, packages and programmes have been employed as technologies of governance to minimise the risk of adverse student behaviour, maximise student outcomes on standardised tests, and provide teachers with discrete learning experiences construed as improving such outcomes. The sum total of these foci is the construction of education as an increasingly ‘risky business’ which employs a myriad of products and tests to manage perceived and actual risks. The paper also reveals how these products and processes constitute student misbehaviour and inadequate teacher and student learning as ‘risk objects’ requiring constant intervention, but which also inhibit inclusion in schooling settings, and challenge teachers’ professionalism
Commodification · Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Economics · Inclusion (mineral · Intervention (counseling · Management · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of Education · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
Retracted
Objects and subjects of risk
Governing through risk
Hugs and behaviour points
Ritualisation of testing
Policy, philanthropy and profit
Validity and participation
Conceptualising the surveillance of teachers
Computer adaptive testing, big data and algorithmic approaches to education
Bad behaviour in school
Doing time in the sociology of education
Critical Reflection on Strategies for Widening Acceptance to Emancipatory Sociology Engaging with Employers and Workers in the Good Jobs Project
Risky teachers
The Taming of Chance
Organized Uncertainty
Networks, new governance and education
Globalizing Education Policy
The institutional origins of risk
On Generalising from Single Case Studies
Education policies for raising student learning
Bettering Yourself'? Discourses of risk, cost and benefit in ethnically diverse, young working-class non-participants' constructions of higher education
Youth 'at risk
The teacher's soul and the terrors of performativity
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,18 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |