Data, trust and faith: the unheeded religious roots of modern education policy

Daniel Tröhler (Corresponding author), Veronika Maricic

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Abstract

This paper explores the unheeded religious roots of the modern conviction to standardised, scientific education policy and its inherent sciento-social epistemology. In doing so, it traces the discursive roots of this hierarchical but non-governmental idea of social governance from its 16th century Scottish Presbyterian predecessors to its advocates at Teachers College, Columbia University around and after 1900 and ultimately to its global spread in the later twentieth century via the OECD.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)138-153
Number of pages16
JournalGlobalisation, Societies and Education
Volume19
Issue number2
Early online date18 Jan 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 503001 General education

Keywords

  • Presbyterianism
  • Teachers College
  • expertocracy
  • faith in numbers
  • imperialism
  • nationalism
  • philanthropic foundations
  • sciento-social epistemology

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