Liturgy: A Foucauldian Genealogy on the Discourse of Moral Ideologies Within Educational Assessment

<p dir="ltr">My creation is a poststructural Foucauldian genealogy, a complex layering of the past and present that addresses the moral ideologies manifested as discourses within our sociopolitical structures and educational spaces. As my entrance into the academy, this heretical rupture serves as a historical manifesto exorcising “truth” from its supposed position of neutrality. Through my analysis, I envision a future that allows for mutable ways of being in the classroom by invoking wonder as an active creative companion. It examines the impacts of standardized assessment and the legacies of moral mandates embedded within our very beings. My work is unconventional and challenges the boundaries of the dissertation. I dismiss the traditional format. I use religious terms as tools to excavate and expose a hidden history while simultaneously revealing my own story from childhood to the present.</p><p dir="ltr">This artistic creation offers a means of rebellion against the academic and institutional structures paralyzed by static notions and moral imperatives. I employ creative license to describe implications of morality within education poetically through my literary muse, Dante Alighieri. My rebellion paves the way toward a new becoming, something novel and exciting. I invite you to join me so our souls can walk together, meditate, and coalesce into something different through a resurrection of transmutation.</p>