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Students as Zombies: How Can We Awaken the Undead?

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Drawing on educational assessment research and literature and my reflections of working with students in Higher Education this chapter utilizes the metaphor of 'zombie' as an analytical tool to explore the interplay between assessments in compulsory education and the changing nature of some undergraduate students' learner identities. The chapter will consider how assessment in schools is creating a living dead culture within children's and young people's educational careers. Using the findings of a small-scale which explored students' and lecturers' experiences of Dialogue+, an intervention designed to support students' knowledge and understanding of assessment and feedback practices in universities, the chapter will then explore and discuss possible antidotes to the situation.

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  1. School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR47TJ, UK

    Rebecca Westrup

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  1. School of Education & Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

    Victoria Carrington

  2. Faculty of Education, Department of Teacher Education, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada

    Jennifer Rowsell

  3. School of Education & Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

    Esther Priyadharshini

  4. School of Education & Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom

    Rebecca Westrup

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Westrup, R. (2016). Students as Zombies: How Can We Awaken the Undead?. In: Carrington, V., Rowsell, J., Priyadharshini, E., Westrup, R. (eds) Generation Z. Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-934-9_11

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