Taming Chance in Education - Control, Prediction and Comparison

This volume centres the notion of 'chance' in education as a key concept in contemporary education - relating to aspects like accountability, datafication, or international large-scale assessments - and discusses the impact that the historical desire to 'tame' this notion.

List of contents

Introduction: How the Book "Thinks" 1. Presenting the "Problem" 2. The Prelude of Taming Chance in Education 3. Stories about Desires, Hopes, and Promises to Be Answered by Control, Predictions, and Comparisons 4. Taming Chance in Educational Practices 5. Addendums for Legitimacy: Objectivity, Certainty, and Applicability 6. Concluding Remarks

About the author

Daniel Pettersson is Professor of Education, University in Gävle, Sweden.
Andreas Nordin is Professor of Education, Linnaeus University, Sweden.

Product details

• Authors: Nordin Andreas, Daniel Pettersson, Daniel (University in Gavle Pettersson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2025
• EAN: 9781032441177
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3244117-7
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Testing & Measurement, EDUCATION / Research, EDUCATION / Comparative, Teaching skills and techniques, Educational strategies & policy, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching skills & techniques, Teaching of a specific subject, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy, Education: examinations and assessment, Examinations & assessment, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher