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Author:   Florian Waldow (Humbolt University, Germany) ,  Gita Steiner-Khamsi (Columbia Teachers College, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9781350198814

ISBN 10:   1350198811
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   26 November 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Series Editors’ Foreword 1. Introduction: Projection in Education Policy-Making, Florian Waldow Part I: Looking from Below: Interpreting National Projections into International League Leaders 2. PISA Projections in Chile: The Selective Use of League Leaders in the Enactment of Recent Education Reforms, Lluís Parcerisa and Antoni Verger 3. Schooling Reform in Australia: Legitimation Through ‘Projections’ onto Shanghai and East Asian Schooling Systems, Bob Lingard and Sam Sellar 4. “Pedagogical Paradise” and “Exam Hell”: PISA Top-Scorers as Projection Screens in German Print Media, Florian Waldow 5. Nordic Reference Societies in School Reforms in Norway: An Examination of Finland and the Use of International Large-Scale Assessments, Kirsten Sivesind 6. PISA Rhetoric and the “Crisis” of American Education, Nancy Green Saraisky Part II: Coping with Success: International Projections and National Counter Narratives 7. The Use of PISA Results in Education Policy-Making in Finland, Piia Seppänen, Risto Rinne, Jaakko Kauko and Sonja Kosunen 8. PISA and Self-Projection in Shanghai, Vicente Reyes and Charlene Tan 9. Curse or Blessing? Chinese Academic Responses to China’s PISA Performance, Barbara Schulte 10. Excellence and Envy: The Management of PISA Success in Singapore, Søren Christensen 11. Perceptions of the East Asian Model of Education and Modeling Its Future on Finnish Success: South Korean Case, Yoonmi Lee and Youl-Kwan Sung 12. Conclusions: What Policy Makers Do with PISA, Gita Steiner-Khamsi Index

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A highly important and timely edited collection on a topic of phenomenal and -alas- ever growing significance. This is a book that brings together the work of a group of internationally known scholars whose writing and influence in the field of education governance research cannot be over-stated. Thoroughly recommended. * Sotiria Grek, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh, UK *

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Florian Waldow is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Humboldt University, Germany. Gita Steiner-Khamsi is Professor of Comparative and International Education at Teachers College Columbia University, USA.

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