PISA Under Examination - Comparative Education Society in ...

CONTENTS
Preface and acknowledgments
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1. PISA under examination: Changing knowledge, changing tests,
and changing schools 1
Miguel A. Pereyra, Hans-Georg Kotthoff and Robert Cowen
Section I: The comparative challenges of the OECD PISA programme 15
2. PISA as a political instrument: One history behind the formulating
of the PISA programme 17
Ulf P. Lundgren
3. PISA: Numbers, standardizing conduct, and the alchemy of school
subjects 31
Thomas Popkewitz
4. Constructing the OECD programme for international student assessment 47
Clara Morgan
5. The dissatisfaction of the losers: PISA public discourse in
Ibero-American countries 61
Antonio Bolívar
Section II: PISA and school knowledge 75
6. The context for interpreting PISA results in the USA: Negativism,
chauvinism, misunderstanding, and the potential to distort the
educational systems of nations 77
David C. Berliner
7. PISA, international comparisons, epistemic paradoxes 97
David Scott
8. Competencies vs. interculturalty. Student exchanges in the age
of PISA 109
Donatella Palomba and Anselmo R. Paolone
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