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Lundahl, Christian; Serder, Margareta – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
How can we understand the uncertainties in high-stake measures such as PISA in relation to the claims that different authorities make from them? In this paper, we use a rather remarkable case from Sweden involving conflicting interpretations of the PISA 2018 results at a national political level and a fight over statistics between two national…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Foreign Countries
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Zhang, Kunkun; Djonov, Emilia; Torr, Jane – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
Television, like other media, can work as a platform for promoting learning. This article illustrates the value of multimodal discourse analysis for evaluating the potential of a children's television show as a vehicle for fostering knowledge and skills in a specific subject area. Drawing on social semiotic principles and systemic functional genre…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Educational Television, History Instruction, Thinking Skills