TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mansell,Warwick
TI  - Education by numbers: the tyranny of testing 
T2  - Politico's
SN  - 978-1-84275-199-2
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Methuen
KW  - Tests y pruebas en educación
KW  - Gran Bretaña
KW  - Política educativa
KW  - Education
KW  - Standards
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Educational tests and measurements
KW  - Education and state
N1  - Índice; Bibliografía
N2  - Warwick Mansell argues that England no longer has a state education system worthy the name. Instead, England's education system is now an exams system. (p. 3), and the energies of those involved in it are misdirected towards maximising results rather than nurturing the minds, hearts and spirits of those who learn and teach: I believe that teaching to the test, so far from being discouraged, is now the guiding philosophy behind England's approach to education. [T]his approach is a disaster, since education, is not about following rules. It is about engagement with a subject, seeing connections and. thinking critically. (pp. 228-9) Mansell has certainly engaged with his subject, spending three years anatomising England's testing-regime. While not exploring the connections, he links school testing to the wider governmental obsession with public sector performance or output numerically rendered, and with the commodification of knowledge
ER  -