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PISA, Policy and the OECD

Respatialising Global Educational Governance Through PISA for Schools

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Authors:
  1. Steven Lewis

    1. Research for Educational Impact Centre, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Addresses the OECD's PISA for Schools and PISA4U programmes
  • Examines how OECD policy ensembles govern local schooling policy and practice at the school and teacher level
  • Theorizes new ways of understanding and analyzing global educational governance

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. (Re)Considering the ‘Practical Value’ of Comparison

    • Steven Lewis
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Evolving State of the OECD and PISA

    • Steven Lewis
    Pages 13-28

  4. Topological Relations of Governance

    • Steven Lewis
    Pages 29-63

  5. New Networks: Policy, Philanthropy and Profit

    • Steven Lewis
    Pages 65-95

  6. New Cartographies: Relocating Schools in Topological Policy Spaces

    • Steven Lewis
    Pages 97-131

  7. New Evidence: Governing Schooling Through ‘What Works’

    • Steven Lewis
    Pages 133-170

  8. New Topological Spaces and Relations of the OECD’s Global Educational Governance

    • Steven Lewis
    Pages 171-188

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 189-192
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About this book

This book explores new modes, spaces and relations of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)'s global educational governance associated with the PISA for Schools test. 
 
Adopting a theoretically-rich policy sociology approach, with an emphasis on topological understandings of spatiality and power, the book examines the entire PISA for Schools policy cycle, from its initial development, to its administration and promotion in the U.S., and its local enactment by schools and teachers. It demonstrates how PISA for Schools helps to steer how schooling is locally understood and practised through separate and yet overlapping techniques: governing by (1) heterarchy, (2) respatialisation and (3) 'best practice'.


The book reveals the specific effects of PISA for Schools as an exemplar of how global educational governance is increasingly enfolded within contemporary schooling, as well as discussing how we mightpractise a policy sociology in which the local is acknowledged as a relevant space of concern.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Research for Educational Impact Centre, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

    Steven Lewis

About the author

Dr Steven Lewis is an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA Fellow at the Education Governance and Policy group within the Research for Educational Impact Centre of Deakin University. His current research interests are concerned with new modes and forms of educational accountability and data infrastructures; the education policy work of the OECD and other 'non-state' actors and organisations; and how these developments help shape the understanding and practice of schooling. He has established himself as a leading global expert on the education policy work of the OECD, and has helped further the use of spatial and relational thinking to inform generative new approaches to the study of global educational policymaking and governance.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: PISA, Policy and the OECD

  • Book Subtitle: Respatialising Global Educational Governance Through PISA for Schools

  • Authors: Steven Lewis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8285-1

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8284-4Published: 30 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-8287-5Published: 01 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-8285-1Published: 29 September 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 192

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education

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