1st Edition

Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA Challenging OECD’s Educational Order

By Vasco d'Agnese Copyright 2018
216 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

190 Pages
by Routledge

Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA provides a critical analysis of the OECD’s educational agenda and its main tool, namely, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). Based on an analysis of the OECD’s public documents, including publications, webpages, and videos, d’Agnese argues that PISA is not just an assessment tool, but rather an all-encompassing framework that intends to... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction

 

Section I

Chapter 1. OECD’s Educational Agenda: Neoliberalism, Workforce and Testing Regime

Chapter 2. Unravelling PISA’s Value Square: Money, Success, Evidence and Competition

Chapter 3. The PISA-based Test for Schools: Ethical Disengagement, Lack of Courage and the Impoverishment of Teaching

Chapter 4. Standardization and Atomisation of Educational Practices: Why PISA is but Another Form of Authoritarian Teaching

 

Section II

Chapter 5. Shifting Perspective: Deweyan Account of Thinking, Knowledge and Subject

Chapter 6. Engaging in Life: The Need for Courage and Imagination

Chapter 7. A Different Value Square. Bringing Back Schooling to What Schooling is About

Chapter 8. Newness and Radical Possibility: Education as Dwelling in the Not-yet

 

Index

Biography

Vasco d’Agnese, PhD, is associate professor of Education at the Department of Psychology, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, with interests in educational theory, Dewey, Heidegger, postmodernism and educational policies.