1st Edition
Critical Perspectives on PISA as a Means of Global Governance Risks, Limitations, and Humanistic Alternatives
Introduction: A Success Story? Critical Perspectives on PISA as a Means of Global Governance
António Teodoro
1: Invisible Struggles, Encoded Fantasies and Ritualized Incantations: A Critical Infrastructure Studies Analysis of PISA
Camilla Addey
2: How PISA is Present in the Scientific Production: A Bibliometric Review
Carlos Décio Cordeiro and Vítor Duarte Teodoro
3: PISA as Epistemic Governance within the European Political Arithmetic of Inequalities: A Sociological Perspective Illustrating the French Case
Romuald normand
4: Pisa and the Curricular Reforms in Brazil: The Influence of a Powerful Regulatory Instrument
João Luiz Horta Neto
5: Testing PISA Tests: A Study about how Secondary and College Students Answer Pisa Items in Mathematics and Science
Vítor Duarte Teodoro, Vítor Rosa, João Sampaio Maia, and Daniela Mascarenhas
6: International Large-Scale Assessment: Issues from Portugal's Participation in TIMSS, PIRLS and ICILS
Vítor Rosa
7: PISA in Media Discourse: Prominence, Tone, Voices and Meanings
Ana Carita, Teresa Teixeira Lopo, and Vítor Duarte Teodoro
8: OECD and Education: How PISA is becoming a ‘Big Science’ Project
Vítor Rosa and Ana Lourdes Araújo
Conclusion: Limitations and Risks of an OECD Global Governance Project
António Teodoro
Biography
António Teodoro is Professor of Sociology of Education and Comparative Education at Lusofona University, Portugal. He is also Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development (CeiED).
"If different books have been published in recent years about the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), the book edited by António Teodoro singles itself out as the first to offer a resolutely polemical look at the evaluation piloted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) which has gradually established itself as a reference in terms of school comparison. The interest of the critical approach to PISA developed in this work is redoubled by the fact that it refers to work carried out within the framework of an important research project which specifically questioned the "success" of PISA […]. By approaching PISA from different angles of critical study, the book allows for an in-depth discussion of important questions raised by this assessment, not only at the scientific level, but also at the educational, political and social levels." - Daniel Bart, In Spirale - Journal of research in education
