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Technology and aesthetics in school excellence policies: the case of Through Growth to Achievement

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: Global policy development in schooling often looks to solutions that embrace technology and articulate a ‘what works’ approach to practice. This paper takes as a case study the Australian Government’sThrough Growth to Achievementreport on achieving school excellence. It analyses the report through the lens of ‘sublimes’, which provide insight into the way certain policy rhetoric can become reified.Through Growth to Achievementemphasises technological solutions which align with and reify an aesthetic notion of good teaching that draws on the ‘what works’ literature. This analysis argues that certain assumptions about technology, teacher practice and the ‘evidence’ for good policy are based on these reifications. A sublimes analysis makes these unspoken assumptions explicit and reveals the way they reinforce globalised policy approaches and foreclose others.

Source: The Australian Educational Researcher

DOI: 10.1007/s13384-022-00539-y

Author: Pat Norman

Institution: The University of Sydney

Language: English

Topic: Global Educational Policies and Reforms

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,990