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On NCATE Standards and Culture at Work: Conversations, Hegemony, and (Dis‐)Abling Consequences
Author(s) -
Varenne Hervé
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2007.38.1.16
Subject(s) - hegemony , accreditation , sociology , politics , trace (psycholinguistics) , pedagogy , power (physics) , higher education , political science , law , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , philosophy
Many are unaware of the power of the NCATE standards for the accreditation of schools of education. In this article, I first trace the development of the political authority of these standards, and their imposition on hundreds of schools of education. I then focus on the discourse of these standards, particularly the emphasis on “knowledge, skills and dispositions” as personal properties to control. I conclude with a call to highlight the struggles in which all involved are engaged.