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Hu, Zi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has garnered increasing attention since its inception in 2000. Correspondingly, there has been heightened interest in 'PISA poster countries' like Singapore and Shanghai-China. Yet to date, little is known about the processes and dynamics of the construction of PISA discourses within these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Secondary School Students, International Assessment
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Fekete, Marianna – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2020
Introduction: In the context of national and global events of the last few years (wave of refugees in 2015, terrorist attacks, climate change, strengthening of far-right and radical parties, fake news and manipulation, etc.), the ability of making an independent opinion, making resolutions based on facts and knowledge, being able to see through…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Global Approach, Nationalism, Information Literacy
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Takayama, Keita; Lingard, Bob – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
This paper traces the complexities, contingencies and tensions involved in the creation of a new, 'scientific' assessment in what we call Prefecture A in Japan. We start with a thick, granular description of the complicated and ongoing narrative of a new policy emergence. This descriptive account serves as a precursor to our application of an…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Psychometrics, Public Officials, International Organizations
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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
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NORDSCI, 2020
This volume includes four sections of the 2020 NORDSCI international conference proceedings: (1) Education and Educational Research; (2) Language and Linguistics; (3) Philosophy; and (4) Sociology and Healthcare. Education and Educational Research includes 15 papers covering the full spectrum of education, including history, sociology and economy…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Preservice Teacher Education, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
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Baker, Bernadette – Australian Educational Researcher, 2009
In this article, the author revisits the interlinked conceptualizations of globe, of an unconscious, and of the child, which subtly shape repetitively appearing issues that educational research now entails, confronts, and works through. By looking exclusively at institutional structures, educational policy, or classroom-based interactions, the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Educational Strategies