Kiah Bond

“When I was 11, I was more concerned about having fun with my friends and playing football” Exploring GCSE students’ perceptions of assessments and the performative culture in schools

Performativity is the outcome of numerous government policies around assessment and accountability which sought state-regulated reform for the purposes of economic growth and educational excellence. Such governance in education has led to individual practitioners living an existence of calculation in response to demands for progress, standardization and monitoring. These reforms…