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Critical Perspectives on PISA as a Means of Global Governance
Critical Perspectives on PISA as a Means of Global Governance: Risks, Limitations, and Humanistic Alternatives is out now from Routlegde.
This volume offers a critical examination of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), focusing on its origins and implementation, its relationship with other large-scale international assessments, and its impacts on education policy and reform at the national and transnational levels. Using empirical data collected from the project “A Success Story? Portugal and PISA (2000-2018)”, carried out by CeiED at the Lusófona University of Lisbon, the text highlights the links between PISA and emerging issues, including the international circulation of big science, expertise and policy, and identifies its conceptual and methodological limits as a global governance project.
The volume ultimately provides a new framework for understanding how OECD priorities are manifested through an instrument
regulatory instrument based on the Theory of Human Capital and Knowledge, and therefore makes a powerful case for pursuing new humanistic approaches. This text will benefit researchers, academics and educators with an interest in education policy and politics, international and comparative education, and the sociology of education more generally.
The book’s introduction is in open access and can be read here.
Authors
Ana Carita; Ana Lourdes Araújo; António Teodoro; Camilla Addey; Carlos Décio Cordeiro; Daniela Mascarenhas; João Luiz Horta Neto; João Sampaio Maia; Romuald Normand; Teresa Teixeira Lopo; Vítor Duarte Teodoro; Vítor Rosa