A critical review of Critical Perspectives on PISA as a Means of Global Governance: Risks, Limitations and Humanistic Alternatives, edited by António Teodoro and published by Routledge, has been published in Spirale - Revue de recherches en éducation.

The review, by Daniel Bart, Full Professor at the University of Lille and researcher at CIREL - Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en éducation de Lille, highlights the book's critical approach to PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) as a reference for international school comparisons and the classification of national education systems; an interest that the author believes is amplified by the focus on the work carried out in the context of a major research project and its results, and which rightly questioned Portugal's "success" in this international ranking.

This research project - A success story? Portugal and PISA (2000-2018) - funded by the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology and which ran from September 2018 to March 2022, analyzed all the cycles of Portugal's participation in PISA (and, secondarily, other international studies in which the country participated), comparing the processes adopted in data collection.  The central problem formulated directly and which the empirical work sought to answer was: what were the implicit and explicit implications of Portugal's participation in PISA, or, in other words, how did different national actors (policy-makers, school managers, teachers and their unions, parental associations, the media) appropriate the process and include the results of this participation in discourses, public policies and professional practices? 

The review can be read in full here.