António Teodoro, Scientific Coordinator of CeiED, edits a new book, entitled “Critical Perspectives on PISA as a Means of Global Governance: Risks, Limitations, and Humanistic Alternatives”, at 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, 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 a regulatory instrument based on the Theory of Human Capital and Knowledge, and thus makes a powerful case for pursuing new humanistic approaches. This text will benefit researchers, scholars and educators with an interest in education policy and politics, international and comparative education, and the sociology of education more generally. Those interested in the history of education will also benefit from this volume. Scheduled to be released on 25 March 2022, the book can be pre-ordered now here.