Understanding PISA’s Attractiveness

Florian Waldow is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Humboldt University, Germany.Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College Columbia University, USA.

• Series Editors’ Foreword1. Introduction: Projection in Education Policy-Making, Florian WaldowPart I: Looking from Below: Interpreting National Projections into International League Leaders2. PISA Projections in Chile: The Selective Use of League Leaders in the Enactment of Recent Education Reforms, Lluís Parcerisa and Antoni Verger3. Schooling Reform in Australia: Legitimation Through ‘Projections’ onto Shanghai and East Asian Schooling Systems, Bob Lingard and Sam Sellar4. “Pedagogical Paradise” and “Exam Hell”: PISA Top-Scorers as Projection Screens in German Print Media, Florian Waldow5. Nordic Reference Societies in School Reforms in Norway: An Examination of Finland and the Use of International Large-Scale Assessments, Kirsten Sivesind6. PISA Rhetoric and the “Crisis” of American Education, Nancy Green SaraiskyPart II: Coping with Success: International Projections and National Counter Narratives7. The Use of PISA Results in Education Policy-Making in Finland, Piia Seppänen, Risto Rinne, Jaakko Kauko and Sonja Kosunen8. PISA and Self-Projection in Shanghai, Vicente Reyes and Charlene Tan9. Curse or Blessing? Chinese Academic Responses to China’s PISA Performance, Barbara Schulte10. Excellence and Envy: The Management of PISA Success in Singapore, Søren Christensen11. Perceptions of the East Asian Model of Education and Modeling Its Future on Finnish Success: South Korean Case, Yoonmi Lee and Youl-Kwan Sung12. Conclusions: What Policy Makers Do with PISA, Gita Steiner-KhamsiIndex

A highly important and timely edited collection on a topic of phenomenal and -alas- ever growing significance. This is a book that brings together the work of a group of internationally known scholars whose writing and influence in the field of education governance research cannot be over-stated. Thoroughly recommended.