ERIC Number: EJ1454470
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0272
EISSN: EISSN-1366-5839
Education, the New Politics of Differentiation and Ordinal Citizenship
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.
Descriptors: Social Differences, Politics of Education, Citizenship, Personal Autonomy, Self Concept, Social Class, Reputation, Ethics, Measurement Techniques, Statistical Analysis, Classification, Neoliberalism, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Social Change, Institutional Characteristics, Family Income, Selective Admission, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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