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.

Provides an in-depth overview of the impact of OECD educational initiatives and programs across both member and non-member states Draws on interviews with key agents as well as primary sources harvested in both the OECD archives and from national archives across five continents Brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to discuss the trajectory of education policy from a comparative perspective Presents the first comprehensive historical account of the development of the OECD from its conception to present day

Autorentext

Christian Ydesen is Professor in the Department of Culture and Learning at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: What can we learn about global education from historical and global policy studies of the OECD?.- 2. Learning Productivity: The European Productivity Agency - An Educational Enterprise.- 3. The OECD, American power and the rise of the 'economics of education' in the 1960s.- 4. The birth of the OECD education policy area.- 5. Australian education joins the OECD: Federalism, regionalization, and the role of education in a time of transition.- 6. International cooperation from the perspective of INEP agents: The OECD and Brazilian public education, 1996-2006.- 7. The impact of PISA studies on education policy in a democratic perspective: The implementation of national tests in Denmark.- 8. The OECD and educational policy in China.- 9. OECD, PISA and the educationalization of the world: The case of the Southern Cone countries.- 10. The OECD's campaign for distributed leadership: The risks of pushing for more accountability and teacher responsibility.- 11. Constructing school autonomy with accountability as a global policy model: a focus on OECD's governance mechanisms.- 12. 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.- 13. Historicising new spaces and relations of the OECD's global educational governance: PISA for schools and PISA4U.- 14. Conclusion: The formation and workings of a global education governing complex.