Abstract

ANDRADE-MOLINA, Melissa. Not another typical story, yet not a new critique. A journey to utopia across standardized assessment. Educação. UNISINOS [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.3, pp.315-323. ISSN 2177-6210.  https://doi.org/10.4013/edu.2017.213.05.

This is an approach to standardized assessment built on Foucault’s work. Assessment is taken as a dispositif that allows the exertion of power, in terms of governmentality. Diverse discourses about assessment circulate among national and international agencies, which promote its “goodness” for progress and development of nations. This paper, by historicizing the present, aims at mapping the continuities and discontinuities of discourses about standardized assessment in Chile and at portraying how assessment systems govern subjects. The structure of this paper is not the typical academic structure. Instead, it uses the plot of two movies to articulate and to depict assessment systems as a dispositif of power.

Keywords : Standardized Assessment; Dispositif; Historicizing the Present; Foucault.

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