The OECD’s Historical Rise in Education: The Formation of a Global Governing Complex (Global Histories of Education)

This edited volume focuses on the historical role of the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) in shaping global education policy. In this book, contributors shed light on the present-day perspective of Comparative Education as a logical addition to current scholarship on the history of international organizations in the field of education. Doing so, the book provides a deeper understanding of contemporary developments in education that will enable us to reflect critically on the trajectories and future developments of education worldwide. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Introduction: What Can We Learn About Global Education from Historical and Global Policy Studies of the OECD? (Christian Ydesen)....Pages 1-14 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 Learning Productivity: The European Productivity Agency—An Educational Enterprise (Regula Bürgi)....Pages 17-37 The OECD, American Power and the Rise of the “Economics of Education” in the 1960s (Maren Elfert)....Pages 39-61 The Birth of the OECD’s Education Policy Area (Vera G. Centeno)....Pages 63-82 Front Matter ....Pages 83-83 Australian Education Joins the OECD: Federalism, Regionalization, and the Role of Education in a Time of Transition (Frederik Forrai Ørskov)....Pages 85-107 International Cooperation from the Perspective of INEP Agents: The OECD and Brazilian Public Education, 1996–2006 (Gabriela Toledo Silva)....Pages 109-131 The Impact of PISA Studies on Education Policy in a Democratic Perspective: The Implementation of National Tests in Denmark (Karen Egedal Andreasen)....Pages 133-153 OECD and Educational Policy in China (Yihuan Zou)....Pages 155-173 OECD, PISA and the Educationalization of the World: The Case of the Southern Cone Countries (Felicitas Acosta)....Pages 175-196 Front Matter ....Pages 197-197 The OECD’s Campaign for Distributed Leadership: The Risks of Pushing for More Accountability and Teacher Responsibility (Jessica Holloway)....Pages 199-217 Constructing School Autonomy with Accountability as a Global Policy Model: A Focus on OECD’s Governance Mechanisms (Antoni Verger, Clara Fontdevila, Lluís Parcerisa)....Pages 219-243 How a European ‘Fear of Falling Behind’ Discourse Co-produces Global Standards: Exploring the Inbound and Outbound Performativity of the Transnational Turn in European Education Policy (John Benedicto Krejsler)....Pages 245-267 Historicizing New Spaces and Relations of the OECD’s Global Educational Governance: PISA for Schools and PISA4U (Steven Lewis)....Pages 269-289 The Formation and Workings of a Global Education Governing Complex (Christian Ydesen)....Pages 291-303 Back Matter ....Pages 305-308