The OECD’s Historical Rise in Education The Formation of a Global Governing Complex

The OECD’s Historical Rise in Education The Formation of a Global Governing Complex / edited by Christian Ydesen.

This edited volume focuses on the historical role of the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) in shaping global education policy. In this book, contributors shed light on the present-day perspective of Comparative Education as a logical addition to current scholarship on...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Ydesen, Christian (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Global Histories of Education
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Education—History.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Education—Economic aspects.
International education .
Comparative education.
International organization.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: What can we learn about global education from historical and global policy studies of the OECD?
  • 2. Learning Productivity: The European Productivity Agency - An Educational Enterprise
  • 3. The OECD, American power and the rise of the 'economics of education' in the 1960s
  • 4. The birth of the OECD education policy area
  • 5. Australian education joins the OECD: Federalism, regionalization, and the role of education in a time of transition
  • 6. International cooperation from the perspective of INEP agents: The OECD and Brazilian public education, 1996-2006
  • 7. The impact of PISA studies on education policy in a democratic perspective: The implementation of national tests in Denmark
  • 8. The OECD and educational policy in China
  • 9. OECD, PISA and the educationalization of the world: The case of the Southern Cone countries
  • 10. The OECD's campaign for distributed leadership: The risks of pushing for more accountability and teacher responsibility
  • 11. Constructing school autonomy with accountability as a global policy model: a focus on OECD's governance mechanisms
  • 12. How a European 'fear of falling behind' discourse co-produces global standards: Exploring the inbound and outbound performativity of the transnational turn in European education policy
  • 13. Historicising new spaces and relations of the OECD's global educational governance: PISA for schools and PISA4U
  • 14. Conclusion: The formation and workings of a global education governing complex.

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