Journal
CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 29-49Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1474474015575473
Keywords
affect; atmospheres; data; education; futurity; progress; schools
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- ESRC 1+3 Quota Studentship [000471227]
- Economic and Social Research Council [1013854] Funding Source: researchfish
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In this article, I seek to extend the geographies of education, youth and young people by offering an account of the significant shifts taking place in contemporary English state education around the production and use of data. I present material from pupils, for whom the changes are putatively made, whose voices are absent in existing educational and sociological literature on data in schools. I do this through an exploration of one specific feature of school datascapes: the use of data to create and maintain a sense of progress'. This is not progress solely as developmental fact, logic, ideology or discourse but as felt. This article draws attention to profound changes to cultures of education that are evinced in relation to contemporary proliferations of data, contributes to theorisations of affective atmospheres in geography and how they come to be known (as a question of both experience and method), and it advances a novel theorisation of progress after the affective turn'.
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