The OECD PISA: Unraveling a Knowledge Network traces
the construction of an international student
assessment by the Organzation for International
Co-operation and Development (OECD). The PISA is
analyzed within the context of the global
architecture of education where various
agents such as the OECD and other international
organizations, states and communities of experts are
reconstructing, reproducing and legitimizing the
discourse and material practices of societal and
economic progress.

The book argues that the PISA is a fragile entity. It
is susceptible to contestation not only as it...