The calculated management of life and all that jazz
Gaming quality assurance practices in English further education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2934495 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Beighton (0000-0003-3265-3105, Canterbury Christ Church University, corresponding author), Christian Beighton, Zahid Naz (0000-0003-2180-4764, Queen Mary University of London) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 844-858 |
| Publication date | 2023-11-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01596306.2023.2192907 |
| OpenAlex | W4362554356 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 32 |
This paper examines emerging discourses and practices of quality assurance in English Further Education (FE), a sector currently undergoing significant change. Using a broadly ethnographic approach and Foucauldian theories of power, we discuss how ‘documentisation’ contributes to governance techniques in a specific institutional context. Documentisation, the transformation of concrete practice into discourse, reverses a common-sense view of the role of policy documentation and exemplifies a wide range of practices in both FE and the wider post-16 sector and includes the gamification of quality systems. Our analysis of the conditions and practices out of which the phenomenon appears identifies processes that are shaping present-day experiences and redefining the discourse of quality itself. Moreover, rather than situating compliance and/or resistance in practice per se, we argue that it is within the conditions of possibility expressed by such processes that the intertwining of compliance and resistance can best be appreciated
Business · Corporate governance · Documentation · Epistemology · Phenomenon · Political science · Public relations · Quality assurance · Sociology · Computer Science · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Innovative Education and Learning Practices · Psychology · Social Psychology · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies · Marketing
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |