{"id":3794,"date":"2012-06-15T08:42:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T16:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=3794"},"modified":"2012-06-15T08:42:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T16:42:02","slug":"critical-education-critical-thinking-and-state-mandated-testing-the-collision-of-state-rhetoric-and-teacher-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2012\/06\/critical-education-critical-thinking-and-state-mandated-testing-the-collision-of-state-rhetoric-and-teacher-beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Education: \u2018Critical Thinking\u2019 And State Mandated Testing: The Collision Of State Rhetoric And Teacher Beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticaleducation.org\">Critical Education<\/a> has just published its latest issue at <a href=\"http:\/\/ojs.library.ubc.ca\/index.php\/criticaled\">http:\/\/ojs.library.ubc.ca\/index.php\/criticaled<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>We invite you to review the Table of Contents below and then visit our web site to read articles and items of interest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criticaleducation.org\">Critical Education<\/a><br \/>\nVol 3, No 5 (2012)<br \/>\nTable of Contents<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ojs.library.ubc.ca\/index.php\/criticaled\/issue\/view\/182244\">http:\/\/ojs.library.ubc.ca\/index.php\/criticaled\/issue\/view\/182244<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Articles<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n\u2018Critical Thinking\u2019 And State Mandated Testing: The Collision Of State Rhetoric And Teacher Beliefs<br \/>\nMelissa Freeman, University of Georgia<br \/>\nSandra Mathison, University of British Columbia<br \/>\nKristen Wilcox, University at Albany, SUNY<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Based on case studies of two school districts in New York State, the authors analyze the contradictory and hegemonic discourse of critical thinking proffered in State curriculum standards and as manifest in state mandated student assessments. Using Gramsci\u2019s (1971) notion of hegemony, the analysis illustrates that dominant groups (such as state administrators or federal policy makers) gain and maintain dominance by projecting their own way of seeing the world so that those who are subordinated by it (such as teachers) accept it as \u2018common sense\u2019 and \u2018natural.\u2019 The ways in which this hegemonic relationship is created and sustained, and it\u2019s consequences, are illustrated in the way teachers make sense of fundamentally contradictory rhetoric and lived practice.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong><br \/>\nHegemony; Accountability; Critical Thinking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical Education has just published its latest issue at http:\/\/ojs.library.ubc.ca\/index.php\/criticaled. We invite you to review the Table of Contents below and then visit our web site to read articles and items of interest. Critical Education Vol 3, No 5 (2012) Table of Contents http:\/\/ojs.library.ubc.ca\/index.php\/criticaled\/issue\/view\/182244 Articles &#8212;&#8212;&#8211; \u2018Critical Thinking\u2019 And State Mandated Testing: The Collision Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73154],"tags":[4772,588,388389,2676,506309,506308],"class_list":["post-3794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-theory-research","tag-critical-education","tag-critical-thinking","tag-educational-research","tag-journals","tag-state-mandated-testing","tag-teacher-beliefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}