New book: Critical perspectives on PISA as a means of global governance
The volume Critical perspectives on PISA as a means of global governance: Risks, limitations, and humanistic alternatives, edited by António Teodoro under the Routledge imprint, offers a critical examination of the Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA), focusing on its origins and implementation, relationship to other international large-scale assessments, and its impacts on educational policy and reform at national and cross-national levels.
Using empirical data gathered from the research project A success story? Portugal and the PISA (2000-2015), the text highlights connections between PISA and emergent issues including the international circulation of big science, expertise, and policy, and identifies its conceptual and methodological limits as a global governance project.
The volume, which had the collaboration of several researchers from the PISA_PT project, ultimately provides a novel framework for understanding how OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) priorities are manifested through a regulatory instrument based in Human and Knowledge Capital Theory, and so makes a powerful case to search for new humanistic approaches.
This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in education policy and politics, international and comparative education, history of education and the sociology of education more broadly. Orders can be done here.