NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Back to results
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
ERIC Number: EJ1454470
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0022-0272
EISSN: EISSN-1366-5839
Education, the New Politics of Differentiation and Ordinal Citizenship
Susan L. Robertson
Journal of Curriculum Studies, v56 n5 p662-672 2024
In this paper, I argue a new politics of ordinal differentiation and its instruments for governing education aims to make invisible a 'low intensity civil war' against the labouring classes. It does this through the elevation and ubiquity of actuarial and quantitative measures aimed at producing a new form of differentiated belonging: that of ordinal citizenship. These measures: elevate individual agency, erasing the idea of social class as a nominal identity; assert the importance of classification in a myriad number of instruments of imagination, including rankings, intended to spur individual self-improvement; and replaces social fairness with statistical fairness. These actuarial and quantitative measures, on the one hand reposition us as striving individuals in a new economy of worth and value, through the ways in which ordinal instruments govern a new politics of differentiation and legitimize the rise of ordinal citizenship.
Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A