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Education, the new politics of differentiation and ordinal citizenship.

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Title: Education, the new politics of differentiation and ordinal citizenship.
Authors: Robertson, Susan L.1 (AUTHOR) slr69@cam.ac.uk
Source: Journal of Curriculum Studies. Oct2024, Vol. 56 Issue 5, p662-672. 11p.
Subject Terms: *Educational objectives, *Citizenship, Working class, War & society, Civil war, Social classes
Abstract: In this paper, I argue a new politics of ordinal differentiation and its instruments for governing education aims to make invisible a 'low intensity civil war' against the labouring classes. It does this through the elevation and ubiquity of actuarial and quantitative measures aimed at producing a new form of differentiated belonging: that of ordinal citizenship. These measures: elevate individual agency, erasing the idea of social class as a nominal identity; assert the importance of classification in a myriad number of instruments of imagination, including rankings, intended to spur individual self-improvement; and replaces social fairness with statistical fairness. These actuarial and quantitative measures, on the one hand reposition us as striving individuals in a new economy of worth and value, through the ways in which ordinal instruments govern a new politics of differentiation and legitimize the rise of ordinal citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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  Data: In this paper, I argue a new politics of ordinal differentiation and its instruments for governing education aims to make invisible a 'low intensity civil war' against the labouring classes. It does this through the elevation and ubiquity of actuarial and quantitative measures aimed at producing a new form of differentiated belonging: that of ordinal citizenship. These measures: elevate individual agency, erasing the idea of social class as a nominal identity; assert the importance of classification in a myriad number of instruments of imagination, including rankings, intended to spur individual self-improvement; and replaces social fairness with statistical fairness. These actuarial and quantitative measures, on the one hand reposition us as striving individuals in a new economy of worth and value, through the ways in which ordinal instruments govern a new politics of differentiation and legitimize the rise of ordinal citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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