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Measures of Schooling: Registers, Standards and the Construction of the Subject
Author(s) -
PATERSON FIONA M. S.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6443.1988.tb00126.x
Subject(s) - institutionalisation , identity (music) , subject (documents) , state (computer science) , class (philosophy) , sociology , order (exchange) , pupil , political science , mathematics education , psychology , epistemology , law , economics , aesthetics , computer science , philosophy , algorithm , finance , neuroscience , library science
This paper looks at the institutional construction of individual pupil identity within state authorised elementary schooling in 19th century Scotland. It argues that in the 1850s and 1860s an official priority of social order began to give way to the importance of a concern with individual achievement. The pre‐conditions for this discursive shift can be found in the institutionalisation of school registers and individual written examinations. The definition of what was to be considered as individual achievement was constrained by the class specificity of the operation of these mechanisms.