FreshEd #312 – Reflecting on Comparative and International Education (Michael Crossley)
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Is PISA a Turning Point in the Field of Comparative Education?
The world was rapidly globalizing and more people worldwide, including policymakers, were beginning to look at international experience in education. I feel the time was right for that sort of shift in our field to happen and appropriately good scholars recognized that and helped to contribute to a revitalization of the field certainly here. PISA is not to me comparative educationalists developing a new way of doing their work. It is a program of governance as many people have still since written,. but a mechanism, a modality that was directed particularly at policymakers. For me, again, it was also increasingly problematic because I'd been involved in challenging what I would label on critical education policy transfer.
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