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de Roock, Roberto Santiago; Espeña, Darlene Machell – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2018
This paper offers insights into the referencing of Singapore within the US Obama Administration educational discourse, underscoring the political-material-discursive nexus of international educational benchmarking. Using critical discourse analysis, we find that an objectified Singapore functions as a rhetorical tool of US policymaker agendas,…
Descriptors: Underachievement, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
Stack, Michelle – Canadian Journal of Education, 2006
This article is a critical discourse analysis of coverage in the "National Post" and the "Globe and Mail" concerning the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's 2000 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). In this article, I have shown how numbers are interpreted through statistics to create a…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Testing, International Education, Foreign Countries