The calculated management of life and all that jazz: gaming quality assurance practices in English further education
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Beighton, Christian and Naz, Zahid 2023. The calculated management of life and all that jazz: gaming quality assurance practices in English further education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2023.2192907
Authors | Beighton, Christian and Naz, Zahid |
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Abstract | This paper examines emerging discourses and practices of quality assurance in English Further Education (FE), a sector currently undergoing significant change. Using a broadly ethnographic approach and Foucauldian theories of power, we discuss how ‘documentisation’ contributes to governance techniques in a specific institutional context. Documentisation, the transformation of concrete practice into discourse, reverses a common-sense view of the role of policy documentation and exemplifies a wide range of practices in both FE and the wider post-16 sector and includes the gamification of quality systems. Our analysis of the conditions and practices out of which the phenomenon appears identifies processes that are shaping present-day experiences and redefining the discourse of quality itself. Moreover, rather than situating compliance and/or resistance in practice per se, we argue that it is within the conditions of possibility expressed by such processes that the intertwining of compliance and resistance can best be appreciated. |
Keywords | Education; Quality assurance ; Foucault; Complexity; Normalisation ; Documentisation |
Year | 2023 |
Journal | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN | 0159-6306 |
1469-3739 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2023.2192907 |
Official URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01596306.2023.2192907 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 04 Apr 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 13 Apr 2023 |
Publisher's version | License |
Output status | Published |
License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Page range | 1-15 |
https://repository.canterbury.ac.uk/item/945wy/the-calculated-management-of-life-and-all-that-jazz-gaming-quality-assurance-practices-in-english-further-education
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