The Pisa Effect on Global Educational Governance

ISBN-13: 9780367884529 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 244 str.

Louis Volante

Opis

By presenting an in-depth examination of PISA’s role in education governance and policy discourses, this book provides the reader with a critical analysis of the educational change process within our increasingly global educational policy environment.

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: PISA, Policy, and Global Educational Governance

(Louis Volante and Xavier Fazio)

Part II: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Chapter 2: Problematizing the Expansion of PISA’s Explanatory Power

(Clara Morgan)

Chapter 3: The Dialectical Impact of PISA on International Educational Discourse and National Education Reform

(Alexander W. Wiseman and Budi Waluyo)

Chapter 4: Measurement and Evaluation Issues with PISA

(Harvey Goldstein)

Part III: Topical Issues within National and Transnational Contexts

Chapter 5: Shanghai-China and the Emergence of a Global Reference Society

(Charlene Tan and Vicente Chua Reyes, Jr.)

Chapter 6: Regional Ethnic Diversity, School Ethnic Diversity, and PISA Performance across Europe (Sjaak Braster and Jaap Dronkers)

Chapter 7: Socioeconomic Segregation in Secondary Schools: Evidence from Across the UK

(John Jerrim, Nikki Shure, Rodrigo Torres, & Gabriel Gutiérrez)

Chapter 8: Policy Implications of PISA in Germany: The Case of Teacher Education

(Christine Sälzer and Manfred Prenzel)

Chapter 9: The Role of PISA in Regional and Private/Public Debates in Italy

(Daniele Checchi and Stefano Verzillo)

Chapter 10: PISA, Policy, and Strategic Planning in Federal Switzerland

(Jeanine Füeg, Vera Husfeldt, and Claudia Zahner Rossier)

Chapter 11: The Use and Misuse of PISA Results in Poland

(Maciej Jakubowski)

Chapter 12: Using PISA to Monitor Trends and Evaluate Reforms in Australia

(Geoff N. Masters)

Chapter 13: A Vernacular Response: The Impact of PISA and the OECD on New Zealand Education (Martin Thrupp)

Chapter 14: Disconnected Expectations?

O autorze

Louis Volante is Professor of Education at Brock University, Canada.