Critical Perspectives on PISA as a Means of Global Governance

António Teodoro is Professor of Sociology of Education and Comparative Education at Lusofona University, Portugal. He is also Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development (CeiED).

• Introduction: A Success Story? Critical Perspectives on PISA as a Means of Global GovernanceAntónio Teodoro 1: Invisible Struggles, Encoded Fantasies and Ritualized Incantations: A Critical Infrastructure Studies Analysis of PISACamilla Addey2: How PISA is Present in the Scientific Production: A Bibliometric ReviewCarlos Décio Cordeiro and Vítor Duarte Teodoro 3: PISA as Epistemic Governance within the European Political Arithmetic of Inequalities: A Sociological Perspective Illustrating the French Case Romuald normand4: Pisa and the Curricular Reforms in Brazil: The Influence of a Powerful Regulatory InstrumentJoão Luiz Horta Neto 5: Testing PISA Tests: A Study about how Secondary and College Students Answer Pisa Items in Mathematics and ScienceVítor Duarte Teodoro, Vítor Rosa, João Sampaio Maia, and Daniela Mascarenhas6: International Large-Scale Assessment: Issues from Portugal's Participation in TIMSS, PIRLS and ICILSVítor Rosa7: PISA in Media Discourse: Prominence, Tone, Voices and Meanings Ana Carita, Teresa Teixeira Lopo, and Vítor Duarte Teodoro8: OECD and Education: How PISA is becoming a ‘Big Science’ ProjectVítor Rosa and Ana Lourdes AraújoConclusion: Limitations and Risks of an OECD Global Governance ProjectAntónio Teodoro

"If different books have been published in recent years about the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), the book edited by António Teodoro singles itself out as the first to offer a resolutely polemical look at the evaluation piloted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) which has gradually established itself as a reference in terms of school comparison. The interest of the critical approach to PISA developed in this work is redoubled by the fact that it refers to work carried out within the framework of an important research project which specifically questioned the "success" of PISA […]. By approaching PISA from different angles of critical study, the book allows for an in-depth discussion of important questions raised by this assessment, not only at the scientific level, but also at the educational, political and social levels." - Daniel Bart, In Spirale - Journal of research in education