The Junior School Certificate Examination in Bangladesh: A Critical Review (abstract only)  

Oleh:

Hill, Deb J ; Rahaman, Md Mahbubur

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The International Symposium on Social Sciences (TISSS) and Hong Kong International Conference on Education, Psychology and Society (HKICEPS) at Hongkong, December 2013, page 332.
Topik: Bangladesh; public examinations; inclusive education
Fulltext: Hong Kong-Conference 49.pdf (297.84KB)

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Approximately 1.8 million children in Bangladesh now sit a national, public examination called the Junior School Certificate (JSC) examination. Introduced in 2010, this qualification has become the requisite entry-level certificate for those students seeking admittance to secondary level education. Given the tensions inherent in (1) the Government’s endorsement of a national public examination system and (2) its commitment towards the United Nations’ “Education for All” agenda (UNESCO, 2000), the latter of which hopes to see every child in school by the year 2015, this paper has been written as a critical discussion outlining the friction between these two competing discourses. As we argue here, public examinations present an ethical dilemma to those educators committed to an inclusive and humanising agenda. Chief among their concerns, in this context, is undoubtedly the educational wisdom of maintaining such a high-stakes testing regime—with all the negative psychology surrounding examination failure—when Bangladesh was founded upon, and still strives to achieve, a philosophy of egalitarianism.

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