The Politics of International League Tables: PISA in Japan's Achievement Crisis Debate

Autor/in	Takayama, Keita
Titel	The Politics of International League Tables: PISA in Japan's Achievement Crisis Debate
Quelle	In: Comparative Education, 44 (2008) 4, S.387-407 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0068
Schlagwörter	Economic Research; Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Global Approach; Mass Media Role; Newspapers; Government Role; International Studies; Case Studies; Political Influences; Economic Factors; Cultural Influences; Academic Achievement; Standards; College Preparation; Standardized Tests; Test Results; Comparative Education; Japan; Program for International Student Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wirtschaftsforschung; Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Globales Denken; Newspaper; Zeitung; Internationaler Studiengang; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Ökonomischer Faktor; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Schulleistung; Standard; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft
Abstract	Using the political-economic analysis of globalisation and education as well as a culturalist approach to education policy borrowing, the paper analyses the role of local actors, specifically, national newspapers and the Ministry of Education, in mediating the potentially homogenising curricular policy pressure of globalisation exerted through the PISA league tables. Using the recent Japanese education policy debate as a case study, the author demonstrates how the Japanese media interpreted the PISA 2003 findings in a way that resonated with the specific cultural, political, and economic context of the time and how the Ministry used the findings to legitimise otherwise highly contentious policy measures. Questioning the conventional interpretation that the PISA 2003 shock caused the Ministry to redirect its controversial "yutori" (low pressure) curricular policy, the paper reconstitutes the Ministry as an active agent that capitalised on an external reference (PISA) to re-establish its political legitimacy in a time of increasing neo-liberal state-restructuring. (Contains 10 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10