Adam Smith Business School

Professor Ileana Steccolini, University of Essex

'A users’ perspective on Evaluative infrastructures in Schools: from assessing reading skills to opening up new worlds and unveiling new identities' (co-authored by J. Junne)

Wednesday 16 March, 1pm - 2:15pm
Zoom online seminar

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Abstract

Responding to calls for more explorations on evaluative infrastructures (Power, 2015; Kornberger et al., 2017), our paper adopts a users’ perspective to explore (i) the multiple ways in which users engage with evaluative infrastructure and (ii) how this contributes to (re)shape the identities of teachers, pupils and parents. Studying the case of Antolin, a platform used in German Schools, we add new nuances to our understanding to the concepts of protocol, relationality, and generativity proposed by Kornberger et al (2017), especially by describing how evaluative infrastructures educate, socialise and gamify users into specific ways of evaluating and conceiving of the identities, and abilities of themselves and others. Our study problematises a general lack of critical awareness of the potential risks associated with introducing evaluative infrastructures in primary schools. 

Biography

Ileana Steccolini is a Professor of Accounting at Essex Business School. She previously held positions at Newcastle University and Bocconi University and was a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney, the University of Edinburgh, RMIT Melbourne, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Getulio Vargas Foundation. Her expertise develops at the interface among accounting and public administration and management. She has published on public sector accounting, budgeting, performance management and accountability, reform and change processes, governmental financial resilience, inclusion, participation and gender in public services. She is the chair and founder of the Accounting and Accountability Special Interest Group within the International Research Society of Public Management, the Chair of the EIASM conference on Public Sector Accounting and Accountability, and the Chair of the Standing Scientific Committee of the European Accounting Association. She is a member of the Italian Public Sector Accounting Standard Board and of the Advisory board of CIPFA International and of Public Finance by Women. She is Joint editor of Financial Accountability and Management and of the Book Series in Public Service Accounting and Accountability, and serves/d in the editorial boards of Public Administration Review, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, the Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting and Financial Management, and the Journal of Government and Nonprofit Accounting.

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First published: 14 February 2022