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1996: The OECD Policy-Making Assemblage
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Thompson, Greg; Sellar, Sam; Buchanan, Ian – Journal of Education Policy, 2022
Recent analyses of education policy have used the concept of the assemblage to explain how the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's education work contributes to global policy convergence and new forms of policy mobility. These analyses often use Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of assemblage to designate relations between things…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Educational Philosophy
"Representing Your Country": Scotland, PISA and New Spatialities of Educational Governance
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Lingard, Bob; Sellar, Sam – Scottish Educational Review, 2014
This paper focuses on the rescaling and re-spatialization of policy and governance in education, including the constitution of a global education policy field. It deals with the changing education policy work of the OECD, particularly the influential Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). We argue that PISA has become the most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Assessment, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
Researching the Habitus of Global Policy Actors in Education
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Lingard, Bob; Sellar, Sam; Baroutsis, Aspa – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2015
This paper reprises the argument for the emergence of a global education policy field and then focuses on the shared habitus of global and national policy actors and technicians. It is argued that this shared habitus is constituted as a reflection of and a contribution to the creation of the global education policy field. Bourdieu's approach to…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Global Approach, Educational Policy, Content Analysis
The OECD and the Expansion of PISA: New Global Modes of Governance in Education
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Sellar, Sam; Lingard, Bob – British Educational Research Journal, 2014
This paper examines the expansion of the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and associated growth in the influence of the OECD's education work. PISA has become one of the OECD's most successful "products" and has both strengthened the role of the Directorate for Education within the organization and enhanced…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Administration, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students
Forum: The Rise of International Large-Scale Assessments and Rationales for Participation
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Addey, Camilla; Sellar, Sam; Steiner-Khamsi, Gita; Lingard, Bob; Verger, Antoni – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
This Forum discusses the significant growth of international large-scale assessments (ILSAs) since the mid-1990s. Addey and Sellar's contribution ("A Framework for Analysing the Multiple Rationales for Participating in International Large-Scale Assessments") outlines a framework of rationales for participating in ILSAs and examines the…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Group Testing, Participation, Relevance (Education)
The OECD and Global Governance in Education
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Sellar, Sam; Lingard, Bob – Journal of Education Policy, 2013
This review essay discusses the history, evolution and development of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and traces the growing impact of its education work. The essay is in four main sections. The first discusses Carrol and Kellow's "The OECD: A Study of Organizational Adaptation" (Edward Elgar) and…
Descriptors: Governance, Educational Policy, International Organizations, Institutional Mission