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On the surface and below : a genealogical look at the waves of evaluation in early childhood education and care (2024)
Siippainen, A., & Pitkänen, H. (2024). On the surface and below : a genealogical look at the waves of evaluation in early childhood education and care. Journal of Education Policy, Early online. https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2024.2344099
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Julkaisun tiedot
Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Siippainen, Anna; Pitkänen, Hannele
Lehti tai sarja: Journal of Education Policy
ISSN: 0268-0939
eISSN: 1464-5106
Julkaisuvuosi: 2024
Ilmestymispäivä: 25.04.2024
Volyymi: Early online
Kustantaja: Routledge
Julkaisumaa: Britannia
Julkaisun kieli: englanti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2024.2344099
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Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/94627
Tiivistelmä
The rise of evaluation and data in education and education policy is a trend manifesting across a wide variety of policy contexts, holding in its grip national and global policies, with impacts that reach the level of individual children, teachers, and their subjectivities. Earlier research has mainly focused on the phenomenon in neoliberal contexts. This article presents a case study of Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy discourse built on a tradition of social democratic political rationality and egalitarian values. By utilizing Evert Vedung’s metaphor of evaluation waves, we examine how the evaluation trend has influenced the Finnish ECEC policy, which has traditionally been skeptical toward the assessment of individual children’s learning and skills and the production and use of data for accountability purposes. In the genealogical reading of ECEC curricula and policy documents from 2002–2021 as data, we identify three discursive practices – partnership, pedagogization, and evidence wave – that have socio-historically contributed to the formation of the present conception of evaluation in the Finnish ECEC policy discourse. Our genealogical reading also reveals a movement toward international trends – evaluating the individual child’s skills – especially through the evidence wave.
YSO-asiasanat: arviointi; varhaiskasvatus; koulutuspolitiikka; opetussuunnitelmat
Vapaat asiasanat: assessment; evaluation; early childhood education and care; genealogy; Vedung
Liittyvät organisaatiot
Hankkeet, joissa julkaisu on tehty
- Arvioivaa sielua kouluttamassa? Itsearvioinnin eletty politiikka koulukäytännöissä ja oppilaiden kokemuksissa.
- Pitkänen, Hannele
- Suomen Akatemia
OKM-raportointi: Kyllä
Raportointivuosi: 2024
Alustava JUFO-taso: 3