ERIC Number: EJ1412179
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
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ISSN: ISSN-1743-9884
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Navigating Datascapes: Mapping Testing Practices within and across National and Global Contexts
Learning, Media and Technology, v49 n1 p109-121 2024
We draw upon Appadurai's 'scapes' and Latour's Actor Network Theory (ANT) to interrogate historical and spatial flows in relation to specific testing technologies. We reveal how testing systems, conceptualised as actor-networks, rearticulate colonial legacies of inequality which are intensified by new and emerging technologies. ANT helps trace social and relational interactions occurring in various national and global data spaces, and helps make sense of incessant transformations in education datascapes. Mapping actor-networks, and translations, help name and navigate neoliberal forces acting through colonial legacies via emerging educational datascapes. Our examination shows how educational technologies associated with standardised testing in northern and southern contexts -- specifically, England, Singapore, Bangladesh and Australia -- exacerbate structural inequalities. We consider how such technologies are actants and reflective of co-existing historical and temporal influences, and global cultural and spatial flows, allowing us to map the multiple ways in which educational technologies are manifested in an emerging education datascape.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Educational Testing, Databases, Data Use, Equal Education, Information Systems, Global Approach, Cultural Influences, Educational History, Technological Advancement, Colonialism, Standardized Tests
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England); Singapore; Bangladesh; Australia
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