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International Organizations and the Global Education Governance - A case of the OECD’s PISA through critical discourse analysis

Wala, Miljaemilia Inka Maria LU (2022) STVK12 20221
Department of Political Science
Abstract
In the last thirty years, the field of education and educational policymaking has become increasingly internationalized. Consequently, more actors, especially actors beyond the national level have become interested and involved in educational policymaking. International Organizations (IOs) in particular have become prominent in the educational sphere and their role in affecting and defining educational practices and policies has been growing. Through discourses and ideas, these IOs have become influential actors within educational policymaking. The key purpose of this thesis is to examine what kind of ideas these IOs disseminate and promote as well as how they affect the governance and policymaking of education. With the Organization for... (More)
In the last thirty years, the field of education and educational policymaking has become increasingly internationalized. Consequently, more actors, especially actors beyond the national level have become interested and involved in educational policymaking. International Organizations (IOs) in particular have become prominent in the educational sphere and their role in affecting and defining educational practices and policies has been growing. Through discourses and ideas, these IOs have become influential actors within educational policymaking. The key purpose of this thesis is to examine what kind of ideas these IOs disseminate and promote as well as how they affect the governance and policymaking of education. With the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and its Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) as the case, this thesis aims to discover what kind of discourse about education and therefore about educational policymaking the organization promotes through PISA. Furthermore, this thesis aims to discover whether there has been a change in the OECD’s discourse considering the recent developments within the organization which have extended the influence and role of PISA and the OECD to a global reach. By using a critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyze how and what kind of conceptualization the OECD promotes regarding education, this thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of how IOs, through their ideas and discourses, affect the governance of education and educational policymaking. (Less)
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author
Wala, Miljaemilia Inka Maria LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK12 20221
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Education policy, International Organizations, governance, PISA, The OECD, critical discourse analysis
language
English
id
9097430
date added to LUP
2022-10-12 15:21:03
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2022-10-12 15:21:03
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  abstract     = {{In the last thirty years, the field of education and educational policymaking has become increasingly internationalized. Consequently, more actors, especially actors beyond the national level have become interested and involved in educational policymaking. International Organizations (IOs) in particular have become prominent in the educational sphere and their role in affecting and defining educational practices and policies has been growing. Through discourses and ideas, these IOs have become influential actors within educational policymaking. The key purpose of this thesis is to examine what kind of ideas these IOs disseminate and promote as well as how they affect the governance and policymaking of education. With the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and its Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) as the case, this thesis aims to discover what kind of discourse about education and therefore about educational policymaking the organization promotes through PISA. Furthermore, this thesis aims to discover whether there has been a change in the OECD’s discourse considering the recent developments within the organization which have extended the influence and role of PISA and the OECD to a global reach. By using a critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyze how and what kind of conceptualization the OECD promotes regarding education, this thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of how IOs, through their ideas and discourses, affect the governance of education and educational policymaking.}},
  author       = {{Wala, Miljaemilia Inka Maria}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{International Organizations and the Global Education Governance - A case of the OECD’s PISA through critical discourse analysis}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}