PISA, Power, and Policy
Subtitle: the emergence of global educational governance
Publisher: Symposium Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781873927960
Subjects: Programme for international student assessment.; Education and globalization; Education and globalization--europe; Lb3051 .p583 2013; 370.116
Description: 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.