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ERIC Number: EJ1113464
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-0268-0939
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Testing Students under Cognitive Capitalism: Knowledge Production of Twenty-First Century Skills
Morgan, Clara
Journal of Education Policy, v31 n6 p805-818 2016
Scholars studying the global governance of education have noted the increasingly important role corporations play in educational policy making. I contribute to this scholarship by examining the Assessment and Teaching of twenty-first century skills (ATC21S™) project, a knowledge production apparatus operating under cognitive capitalism. I analyze how ATC21S gains symbolic power and authority as it defines what counts in education through three key processes: (1) By legitimizing and disseminating new knowledge about twenty-first century skills; (2) By implementing this knowledge concretely in schools; and (3) By embedding this new knowledge within a global alliance. I suggest that the knowledge produced by ATC21S in calculating and measuring twenty-first century skills contributes to the capture of living labor and its reproduction for the knowledge economy through the school system.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia; Costa Rica; Finland; Netherlands; Singapore; United States
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