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The Colonial Governmentality of Cambridge Assessment International Education
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David Golding; Kyle Kopsick – European Educational Research Journal, 2024
This study examines Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) as a global assemblage that instrumentalizes colonial governmentality. CAIE is a department of the University of Cambridge that has governed schools in British colonies and former colonies since the mid-19th century. These schools constitute a Cambridge School system with…
Descriptors: International Education, International Assessment, Governance, Achievement Tests
International Assessments as the Comparative Desires and the Distributions of Differences: Infrastructures and Coloniality
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Popkewitz, Thomas S. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
The Organization of Economic, Cooperation and Development's Programme for International Student Assessment (OECD's PISA) is explored as a site of science as an actor managing a social life. Its calculations form at the interstices of multiple historical lines as a comparative reason about nations, societies, and populations. That reason is…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Colonialism, International Organizations, Achievement Tests