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PISA, Power, and Policy: the emergence of global educational governance (Oxford Studies in Comparative Education) Kindle Edition
by
Heinz-Dieter Meyer
(Editor),
Aaron Benavot
(Editor)
Format: Kindle Edition
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Over the past ten years the PISA assessment has risen to strategic prominence in the international education policy discourse. Sponsored, organized and administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), PISA seems well on its way to being institutionalized as the main engine in the global accountability regime.
The goal of this book is to problematize this development and PISA as an institution-building force in global education. It scrutinizes the role of PISA in the emerging regime of global educational governance and questions the presumption that the quality of a nation’s school system can be evaluated through a standardized assessment that is insensitive to the world’s vast cultural and institutional diversity. The book raises the question of whether PISA’s dominance in the global educational discourse runs the risk of engendering an unprecedented process of worldwide educational standardization for the sake of hitching schools more tightly to the bandwagon of economic efficiency, while sacrificing their role to prepare students for independent thinking and civic participation.
The goal of this book is to problematize this development and PISA as an institution-building force in global education. It scrutinizes the role of PISA in the emerging regime of global educational governance and questions the presumption that the quality of a nation’s school system can be evaluated through a standardized assessment that is insensitive to the world’s vast cultural and institutional diversity. The book raises the question of whether PISA’s dominance in the global educational discourse runs the risk of engendering an unprecedented process of worldwide educational standardization for the sake of hitching schools more tightly to the bandwagon of economic efficiency, while sacrificing their role to prepare students for independent thinking and civic participation.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSymposium Books Ltd
- Publication date31 May 2013
- File size9277 KB
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- ASIN : B071LCZ3TV
- Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd (31 May 2013)
- Language : English
- File size : 9277 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 432 pages
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Heinz-Dieter Meyer (PhD Cornell University) is Professor of Education at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Albany, focusing on Organization and Governance. He was Sidney Harman Fellow at Harvard University and holds many awards including from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH). His books include "The Design of the University" (Routledge), "PISA, Power, Policy" (Symposium) and "The New Institutionalism in Education" (SUNY Press).
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I found this book to be a balanced and insightful analysis of the OECD's influence on educational reform through its PISA assessment and league tables. It is academically rigorous enough for me to use it as part of a doctorate literature review but readable enough for me to enjoy reading it! Recommended for anyone interested in education policy whether from a pro-market or pro-state point of view.
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