Looking Back toward the Future: Reflecting on the OECD’s Global Educational Influence
The Impact of the OECD on Education Worldwide
ISBN: 978-1-78635-540-9, eISBN: 978-1-78635-539-3
Publication date: 5 May 2017
Abstract
The key questions explored in this volume converge around issues of educational governance in the context of globalization. The individual chapters each contribute to the goals of assessing the development of the educational agenda of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and providing evidence on the trajectories through which the organization’s programs and policies have directly and indirectly influenced and affected diverse educational systems. The chapter explores these issues in more depth, drawing on the perspectives presented in the volume’s individual chapters. The first section provides a discussion of the contexts that have given rise to the OECD as a key global education policy actor. Following this brief historical overview, some of the key findings raised by the volume’s authors are examined in the context of wider literature on global education policy. Collectively, the chapters raise important questions about the role of nation-states in educational planning, the scope and spatiality of international assessments such as PISA and TALIS, and the complexity of evidence and expertise in global, national, and local educational policy-making. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of the implications of the volume’s work for the wider field of comparative and international education.
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Citation
Gardinier, M.P. (2017), "Looking Back toward the Future: Reflecting on the OECD’s Global Educational Influence", The Impact of the OECD on Education Worldwide (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 31), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 247-269. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-367920160000031012
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:Emerald Publishing Limited
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