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Merit, Measurement, and Moral Order: The Market Imaginary in Education


What if the metrics we use in education are not just tools but moral arguments?

Dashboards, rankings, and engagement scores are often framed as neutral measures of learning. But these systems reflect a deeper imaginary shaped by the logic of markets - where efficiency, performance, and competition dominate.

In this post, I explore how educational technologies encode and reproduce a market-based moral order, and consider what it might mean to challenge that framing.

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