Between students, teachers and the school system: a possibility of producing assessments as practices of (re)existence

Abstract

The main of this paper is to investigate the meanings, affections, dilemmas, and possibilities of educational subjects in relation to external assessments. Through interviews with these subjects in a series of encounters, we produced a plausible reading, in approximations with decolonial attitudes, of scenes, situations, effects, and developments with external evaluations in school territories. These, to a large extent, are organized based on mercantilist educational logic and narratives, in which external assessments operate as a political-economic-pedagogical strategy of reproduction and maintenance. Given our scenario, in an inventive policy of being and producing with these educational subjects in sharing, we built some facets of an assessment as a practice of (re)existence. A political insurgency in an attempt to subvert and spark what happens between students, teachers, and a school system.

School; Coloniality of being and knowledge; Decoloniality; Large-scale assessments