Quality education through performativity. ‘Learning crisis’ and technology of quantification in Tanzania |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory 7925, South Africa;2. Burden of Disease Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Johannesburg, South Africa;3. Department of Psychology, School of Human and Community Development, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;1. National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China;2. Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety and Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China;1. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Geography (IRI THESys), Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany;2. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Geography, Mount Scopus, 9190501, Jerusalem, Israel |
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| Abstract: | Concerns over effective learning have been central to the post-2015 debates. This renewed emphasis on quality has prompted a search for international standardised definitions and measures of learning. Performativity – the production of performance through measurement devices, borrowed from the private sector, that induce new individual conducts and institutional organisations – is likely to constitute a prominent feature of the post-2015 education aid landscape. In Tanzania, that has been facing a learning crisis since the end of the 2000s, technologies of quantification have been deployed by aid agencies (within the budget support framework) and a local NGO, Twaweza (Uwezo studies, cash-on-delivery, performance-based teachers’ salary and school funding, randomised-controlled trials) to address poor learning performances. This paper provides a critical analysis of this new public management technology and argues that they represent groundwork for a further stage in neoliberal education more certainly than for the promotion of a transformative education. |
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| Keywords: | Learning Measurement Tanzania Uwezo Cash-on-delivery RCT |
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