Open AccessStop Sacrificing Children to Moloch
Author(s) -
Erik Gillbert
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
cultural and pedagogical inquiry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1916-3460
DOI - 10.18733/cpi29482
Subject(s) - fable , metaphor , psychology , epistemology , philosophy , literature , art , theology
Erik Gilbert extends his extensive expertise on the assessment and evidence cultures in higher education here with a creative metaphor, a fable. He invites us to consider the Biblical God Moloch, and how through assessment obsession we’re participating in an archaic and illogical practice as inhumane as sacrificing children.