Prophets, Saviours and Saints: Symbolic Governance and the Rise of a Transnational Metrological Field

Autor/in	Grek, Sotiria
Titel	Prophets, Saviours and Saints: Symbolic Governance and the Rise of a Transnational Metrological Field
Quelle	In: International Review of Education, 66 (2020) 2-3, S.139-166 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0020-8566
DOI	10.1007/s11159-020-09844-z
Schlagwörter	International Organizations; Governance; Sustainable Development; International Cooperation; Educational Assessment; Educational Policy; Educational Objectives + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Internationale Kooperation; Internationale Zusammenarbeit; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Politics of education; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel
Abstract	Through their collaborative practices of quantification and standardisation in large-scale comparative literacy and numeracy surveys, international organisations (IOs) are both constituting new realities and being reconstituted themselves. This article aims to substantiate how the dominance of global measurement regimes has had profound implications for the ways in which IOs such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank interact, and for the environments these new interrelationships generate. How is one to make sense of this emerging reality? The author of this article examines the interplay of large IOs in their effort to achieve the targets of the United Nations' fourth Sustainable Development Goal (the education-focused SDG 4). She argues that the SDGs are not a stand-alone performance measurement exercise, but are rather organised under the rubric of a much larger monitoring programme with its own internal logic, structure and hierarchies. She demonstrates that SDG 4 represents a significant case of transnational governance of education, and more specifically of the infrastructures and interdependencies of IOs in the construction of education data within the SDGs. Her purpose is to offer insights into the labour and infrastructure involved in the joint production of metrics. Drawing on declarations, agreements and reports as well as empirical findings from a series of interviews she conducted with key actors from all the major IOs and civil society, the author uses Bourdieusian theory to suggest that quantification has facilitated symbolic governance of the education policy field. As a result, the joint effort towards achieving the targets of SDG 4 represents the rise, and to a large degree the dominance, of the influence of the transnational field of measurement in education. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01