Taming Chance in Education

<p>This volume centres the notion of chance in education as a key concept in contemporary education – relating to aspects like accountability datafication or international large-scale assessments – and discusses the impact that the historical desire to tame this notion has had on present-day educational policy and practice.</p><p>Encouraging readers to widen their educational imagination chapters combine secondary research from the fields of cybernetics systems thinking and comparative education with issues of control prediction and comparison as ways to tame chance in education. Using the theoretical lenses of reasoning notions and addendums for legitimacy to foster a critical awareness of rarely discussed educational matters the book explores how these notions are central to the taming of chance within education. Ultimately the authors determine the styles of reasoning that are foundational and frame how we think about and act on education and thereby address one of the top priorities in educational policy politics and practice today.</p><p>This timely book with its unique perspective on the debates around education will be of interest to students researchers and scholars in the fields of education policy and politics international and comparative education and theory of education. Those involved with the philosophy of education will also find the book valuable.</p>