Datafication in schools: enactments of quality assurance and evaluation policies in Brazil |
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| Authors: | Helena Hinke Dobrochinski Candido |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki , Helsinki, Finland helena.candido@helsinki.fi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1221-6736 |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT This paper investigates datafication in schools through an analysis of the enactments of quality assurance and evaluation (QAE) policies in Brazil. In doing so, I question how data permeates and changes school environments, school actors’ conduct and their imaginaries. QAE policies encompass large-scale assessments, indicators, rankings and other steering mechanisms, but importantly connect data to quality in education. Here, I analyse the discourses of school actors (principals, coordinators, supervisors, teachers, students and parents) from three Brazilian public schools collected through semi-structured interviews (n = 28). Data manifests in those schools as a technology of government. Schools enact QAE policies in distinct ways, incorporating the idea of governmentality, but also proposing alternative patterns of action. |
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| Keywords: | Datafication quality assurance and evaluation (QAE) policy enactment schools school actors Brazil |
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