Policies of interlude and interruption: stories of governance as an assemblage

Paananen, Maiju; Grieshaber, Susan

doi:10.1080/02680939.2021.2021296

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“…Our examination demonstrated that the relation between policies and children's sense of agency is neither simple nor direct. This is not particularly surprising as it is well known that when policies are intertwined with other elements in local situations, they inevitably have heterogeneous consequences (e.g., Beighton, 2013;Mulcahy, 2011;Paananen & Grieshaber, 2022;Thompson et al, 2022). By using the concept of machinic assemblage, our focus was directed to the fluxes that occur in situations where school policies related to the allocation of teacher resources intensify mundane classroom activity.…”

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Machinic assemblages—The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency

2023

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This paper presents an account of how children's sense of agency is produced in machinic assemblages. The ethnographic data used in this study originated in one elementary school classroom. By utilising children's own expressions of their agency and by examining the machinic assemblages in which these expressions were produced, we demonstrate that school policies are not merely a background for schools' mundane practices. Rather, when combined with other elements in a school setting, policies have heterogeneous consequences for children's sense of agency.

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Machinic assemblages—The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency

2023

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“…In Case 2, the assessment tool was considered rigid, and the usage was dictated. In the assessment, the focus was on the data, which were used, for example, to demonstrate the quality of pedagogy to and by the administration (see Paananen and Grieshaber, 2023).…”

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Toward a democracy of translations? Local evaluation actor networks in Finnish early childhood education

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Paakkari

2023

Global Studies of Childhood

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This article examines the local evaluation and assessment practices of Finnish early childhood education and care (ECEC) based on Actor–Network Theory (ANT). We employ the concept of translation to discuss how evaluation and assessment practices unfold in networks and how actors come together in negotiations and contestations that seek to orient these networks. ANT approaches society as being formed of networks and directs attention to non-human actors, such as technical and material resources. In this article, we discuss how local evaluation and assessment networks are formed by translations connecting different actors. This article examines three cases in which various assessment tools were used locally by Finnish ECEC. The results highlight the arbitrariness and elasticity of the networks in the translation process. Thus, we introduce the concept of democracy of translation to examine the flexibility of assessment networks and the extent to which actors in these networks can re-negotiate and re-orient the practices taking place.

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“…Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s concept of assemblage (fr. agencement ) has been widely used in critical scholarship (Buchanan, 2015; Paananen and Grieshaber, 2022; Thompson et al, 2022). For Deleuze and Guattari, an assemblage means a compilation of elements that together have productive force.…”

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“…Paananen and Grieshaber (2022) use the concept of assemblage to analyse the effects of policy on the level of the everyday lives of preschools. While looking at how tools of governance are mobilized, they show how a mobile application used to monitor the arrival and departure of children became entangled with the relationships between the educators and the children.…”

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Activity-tracking assemblages in Finnish early childhood education and care

2023

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Children’s activity-trackers have recently gained popularity to ensure sufficient exercise for children attending Finnish Early Childhood Education and Care settings. Device manufacturers collaborate with public and private providers and supply children with bracelets that measure activity. We interviewed staff who used trackers during 2021, and approach these technologies as assemblages where devices are entangled with discourses, rules and practices. Three events show how assemblages produced children as active/inactive; gaming the algorithm, and educators seeking to use the devices pedagogically.

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Policies of interlude and interruption: stories of governance as an assemblage

Cited by 12 publications

References 36 publications

Machinic assemblages—The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency

Machinic assemblages—The role of school policies in producing children's sense of agency

Toward a democracy of translations? Local evaluation actor networks in Finnish early childhood education

Activity-tracking assemblages in Finnish early childhood education and care

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