Outlining a theory of the social and symbolic function of evaluations of education
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https://doi.org/10.15845/praxeologi.v1i0.1467Keywords:
evaluation, evaluation of education, social reproduction, New Public Management, societies after the Modern, meritocracyAbstract
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The article presents the results of a research project focusing on evaluations of education as a part of a New Public Management in the area of education.
The empirical material consists of:
- 8 state-sanctioned evaluations of the formal training programs for the positions in a medical field
- various texts on evaluations
- various examples of Danish evaluation research.
A field of producers of Danish evaluation research is constructed as part of a field of power: analogous to the analysed evaluations, Danish evaluation research forms a discourse legitimizing socially necessary administrative interventions. The evaluations and the evaluation research are constructed as parts of a mechanism performing and legitimizing a sorting to an existing social order.
The theoretical starting point is from theories, primarily by Émile Durkheim, Pierre Bourdieu and Ulf P. Lundgren.
Keywords: evaluation, evaluation of education, social reproduction, New Public Management, societies after the Modern, meritocracy
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