Boltjes, Iris (2025) Wat testdiagnostiek raakt en maakt. Een thesis over de socio technische verbeeldingen en co-productie van de SEO-R2. Master thesis, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences.
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Abstract
This thesis examines how the Scale for Emotional Development (Revised 2) (SEO-R2) shapes and is shaped by sociotechnical imaginaries within the healthcare practice. Although the SEO-R2 – like many diagnostic instruments – is presented as objective and neutral, this research shows that it is part of a wider sociotechnical assemblage where technological means, professional practices and societal views come together. Using a combination of research methods, such as discourse analysis, document research and auto-ethnographic research, it was investigated how something as dynamic and context-dependent as human behaviour is standardised and reduced to a numerical phasing using the SEO-R2. The SEO-R2 uses datafication to make complex emotional development visible, through subjective processes that appeal to the caregiver's intuition and judgment. The results show that the SEO-R2 is more than a diagnostic instrument; it reflects and reinforces certain images of humanity, relations of power, works as a practice-founding tool and confirms normative ideas about the development of a child. Despite the intention to justify the complexity and context, the SEO-R2 creates an apparent objectivity that is paradoxically based on subjective practices. The instrument appears to be constitutive of how the healthcare is organized. The thesis argues for a reflective awareness around the use of diagnostic instruments such as the SEO-R2, in which attention is paid to the underlying assumptions, power relations and co-production of the instrument becomes clear.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Haaften, L.W. van |
| Degree programme: | Pedagogical and Educational Sciences |
| Differentiation route/Track: | Orthopedagogiek [Master Pedagogical and Educational Sciences] |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Jun 2025 13:22 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jun 2025 13:22 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4981 |
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