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'In Numbers We Trust': Statistical Data as Governing Technologies in the Era of Student Achievement and School Accountability
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Kim, Jonghun – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2022
This study examines the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), one of the most influential tools of global education reform discourses in the 21st century. The study focuses on the governing role of statistical data in the discourse constructed by the international comparative assessment, referring to the global educational…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Governance, Academic Achievement, Accountability
Voluntary Self-Control: Education Reform as a Governmental Strategy
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Pongratz, Ludwig A. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2006
This paper takes the vigorous political debate unleashed in Germany by the results of the PISA study as a stimulus to take a closer look at the strategic aims and effects of the current education reforms, of which the PISA study is only one example. It shows that the reform measures underpin a powerful process of normalisation. In this context,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Educational Change, Power Structure