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Composing a care of the self : a critical history of writing assessment in secondary English education / David Lee Carlson and James Albright.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Rotterdam ; Boston : SensePublishers, ©2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789462090224
  • 946209022X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Composing A Care of the Self : A Critical History of Writing Assessment in Secondary English Education.DDC classification:
  • 418.00712 23
LOC classification:
  • LB1631 .C37 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Materia Medica -- Blood, Bones, and the Verbal Body -- The Projected Self -- The Proliferation of Assessment -- The Technology of Portfolios -- Entrepreneurialism -- New Paternalism -- Who are We Now?
Summary: What do Germ Theory, self-psychology, the entrepreneur and the Bertillion Card have in common? They comprise a part of the historical dispositif for the emergence of the writing portfolio. This riveting Foucaultian-inspired genealogy travels through the history of medicine, criminality, psychology, political economics to reveal the epistemologies and practices of power/knowledge of the contemporary portfolio. In so doing, it challenges previous held beliefs about the germination of the secondary school, prevailing views of the dawning of secondary English as a discipline.
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Materia Medica -- Blood, Bones, and the Verbal Body -- The Projected Self -- The Proliferation of Assessment -- The Technology of Portfolios -- Entrepreneurialism -- New Paternalism -- Who are We Now?

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What do Germ Theory, self-psychology, the entrepreneur and the Bertillion Card have in common? They comprise a part of the historical dispositif for the emergence of the writing portfolio. This riveting Foucaultian-inspired genealogy travels through the history of medicine, criminality, psychology, political economics to reveal the epistemologies and practices of power/knowledge of the contemporary portfolio. In so doing, it challenges previous held beliefs about the germination of the secondary school, prevailing views of the dawning of secondary English as a discipline.

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