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The moral grounding of changing educational assessment and accountability: a theoretically informed analysis of moral assemblages in Denmark

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2025
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Murphy, M., & Ydesen, C. (2025). The moral grounding of changing educational assessment and accountability: a theoretically informed analysis of moral assemblages in Denmark. Oxford Review of Education, 51(2), 160–177. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2024.2439300

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This paper examines, via the concept of moral assemblage, the function of assessment as a tool for moral accountability and legitimation. Moral assemblages consist of disciplinary institutions, technologies, and practices, intertwined with elements of moral relationality, such as blame and shame, trust and risk, recognition and misrecognition, and care and safeguarding. The focus of this analysis is the Danish education system, which has undergone significant upheavals and changes in terms of assessment and accountability, including t

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  • Murphy, Mark
  • Ydesen, Christian

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51

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2

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160

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177

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Accountability, assessment, comparative education, moral grounding, Denmark

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English

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2025-03-14

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2025-03-20

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0305-4985

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Murphy, M., & Ydesen, C. (2025). The moral grounding of changing educational assessment and accountability: a theoretically informed analysis of moral assemblages in Denmark. Oxford Review of Education, 51(2), 160–177. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2024.2439300

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