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A Preliminary Foucauldian analysis of educational Discourse related to the Advanced Placement program. Jon Rehm Florida international University April 5, 2011. Introduction. Advanced Placement brief overview AP as a test AP as a program AP vs other High Stakes tests. Purpose.
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A Preliminary Foucauldian analysis of educational Discourse related to the Advanced Placement program Jon Rehm Florida international University April 5, 2011
Introduction • Advanced Placement brief overview • AP as a test • AP as a program • AP vs other High Stakes tests
Purpose • Other Histories of AP • Growth of Program • AP in educational discourse • AP as the gold standard of testing
Problem • Historical narrative structure • Critical Analysis • Foucault • Armstrong • Creation of Categories for analysis
Research Question • What patterns have emerged from educational discourse related the Advanced Placement program? • Have these patterns changed over time.
Delimitations • Discourse • Educationaljournals, books, dissertations • Newspapers (media) • College Board Reports • Legislation
Foucault • Educational ties • Discipline • Power-knowledge • Language • History of Modernity • Philosophy of the subject • Schools as power arbiters of the subject • Archeology vs. Genealogy
Armstrong • Subject matter • Source Material • Primary v secondary sources • History of the modern
Review of Literature • Foucauldian Theory • Armstrong • Historical Methodology
Methodology • Narrative Structure • AP • Education • Societal • Identification of categories in discourse • Analysis of Discourse • Sampling of data