Ways of seeing: Using ethnography and Foucault's 'toolkit' to view assessment practices differently

Qualitative Research

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 309-330

  Hill, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Accountability; Assessment; Discursive analysis; Ethnography; Foucault; Genealogy; Self managing schools; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 69749121656     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794109105030     Document Type: Article

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