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PISA Under Examination

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  1. Miguel A. Pereyra
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  2. Hans-Georg Kotthoff
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  3. Robert Cowen
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  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: Comparative and International Education: A Diversity of Voices (CIEDV, volume 11)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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    1. Pisa Under Examination

      • Miguel A. Pereyra, Hans-Georg Kotthoff, Robert Cowen
      Pages 1-14

  3. The comparative challenges of the OECD PISA programme

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Pisa As a Political Instrument

      • Ulf P. Lundgren
      Pages 17-30

    3. Pisa

      • Thomas S. Popkewitz
      Pages 31-46

    5. The Dissatisfaction of the Losers

      • Antonio Bolívar
      Pages 61-74

  4. Pisa and School Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    4. Competencies Vs. Interculturalty. Student Exchanges in the Age of Pisa1

      • Donatella Palomba, Anselmo R. Paolone, Anselmo R. Paolone
      Pages 109-122

  5. The Assessment of Pisa, School Effectiveness and the Socio-Cultural Dimension

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123
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    2. The Introduction of State-Wide Exit Examinations

      • Katharina Maag Merki
      Pages 125-141

    3. The Pisa Girls and Ticking the Boxes

      • Gerry Mac Ruairc
      Pages 143-156

  7. Extreme Visions of Pisa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223
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About this book

From the 23rd to 26th of November 2009 in La Palma island, in the Canaries, the Comparative Education Society in Europe (CESE) organized an international symposium entitled PISA under Examination: Changing Knowledge, Changing Tests, and Changing Schools. During four days seventeen leading scholars of Europe and America presented their contributions to debate the different problematiques of the remarkable phenomenon represented by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment or PISA. PISA is not merely an educational event. It is also a media circus which involves the public rehearsal for reasons for failure or success; and even, in some cases, public and political and academic explanations about why 'failure' was not really that, and why 'success' was not really that either. At the centre of all these indications, we find the growing influence of international agencies on education and schooling which is decisively contributing to a marketisation of the field of education, in the context of an increasingly multilevel and fragmented arena for educational governance based on the formulation, the regulation and the transnational coordination and convergence of policies, buttressed at the same time by the diffusion of persuasive discursive practice. Organized in four sections entitled The Comparative Challenges of the OCDE PISA Programme, PISA and School Knowledge, The Assessment of PISA, School Effectiveness and the Socio-cultural Dimension, PISA and the Immigrant Student Question, and Extreme Visions of PISA: Germany and Finland, the contributions of this book offers a comprehensive approach of all these challenging and significant issues written from different and distinct research and academic traditions.
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