Global changes in the structural dimensions of national education systems : high stakes exams, tracking, and national assessments, 1960-2010
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- My dissertation examines global changes in several fundamental structural dimensions of national education systems that shape social stratification and the quality of a country's education: national high stakes examinations, tracking, and assessment tests. To analyze these changes, I draw on a newly constructed global panel dataset of 140 countries from 1960 to 2010. Using panel data and event history models, I argue that worldwide shifts in conceptions of education after World War II, toward universal and egalitarian norms of educational access, led to a decline in the use of high stakes exams and tracking at lower levels of the educational process; they also contributed to the dramatic expansion of national assessment testing in countries around the world. These changes have been shaped by the globalization of democratic norms, the rise of global social movements like "Education for All, " and international non-governmental organizations that shape and disseminate world societal discourse on education. My findings have broader implications for understanding: (a) the role of macro-level cultural/institutional processes in shaping educational stratification, (b) how competing conceptions of education, as a mechanism for both spreading equality and allocating individuals to unequal roles, create tensions in the way that nation-states construct their education systems, and (c) theoretical tensions between cultural processes of rationalization and expanding notions of individual personhood
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Furuta, Jared Keola Takeshi |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Meyer, John W |
| Degree supervisor | Jackson, Michelle Victoria |
| Degree supervisor | Ramirez, Francisco O |
| Degree supervisor | Schofer, Evan |
| Thesis advisor | Meyer, John W |
| Thesis advisor | Jackson, Michelle Victoria |
| Thesis advisor | Ramirez, Francisco O |
| Thesis advisor | Schofer, Evan |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jared Furuta |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Jared Keola Takeshi Furuta
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY).
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