Gaming the Data. How the Finnish School Audit Saved the Profession from New Public Management
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7316347 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaakko Turunen (0000-0003-0634-4157, Södertörn University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 137-160 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Organizational Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2752-2997 • E-ISSN: 2752-2997 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/joso-2023-0028 |
| OpenAlex | W4398209402 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
Dynamics connected to professionalization are often analysed from an individual perspective highlighting individual professionals’ struggle for recognition as a professional. This paper looks at the organizational context and its effects on teachers’ professional status in the wake of NPM inspired reforms in Finland. Despite the quantitative nature of the Finnish school audit, the design of the evaluation presents a critical translation of the knowledge claims often made in New Public Management audits. By looking at the original research reports and discussions on the audit system, this paper shows how the Finnish school audit conceptualised education as a societal subsystem and school audit as a tool for linking education with other subsystems. The Finnish school audit produces data for educational policy development and the teachers’ own use. The article suggests that maintaining occupational professionalism requires both the presence of knowledge for professional application and the absence of knowledge yielding to market or managerial interference
Audit · Business · Context (archaeology · Geography · Internal audit · Joint audit · Pedagogy · Performance audit · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Professional development · Professionalization · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies · Accounting
The Rhetoric of Teacher Evaluation
Values manifested in life purposes of higher education students in the Netherlands and Finland
Changing contexts for educational evaluation
Swedish School Reforms and Teacher Professionalism
The Professionalization of the Field of Education in Sweden
Governing by numbers
Managing preschool the Lean way. Evaluating work processes by numbers and colours
Deregulation, privatisation and marketisation of Nordic comprehensive education
Re-professionalizing teaching
Care of the self, resistance and subjectivity under neoliberal governmentalities
On the semiosphere
Making accountable teachers
Shoots of revisionist 1 education policy or just slow readjustment? The Finnish case of educational reconstruction
Patterns of ‘public‐school markets’ in the Finnish comprehensive school from a comparative perspective
The paradox of the education race
Knowledge Work
The Discipline of Rankings
Audit culture and Illiberal governance
Eroding 'Respectability
Sociological Analysis of Professionalism
Audit Culture Revisited
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |