The OECD’s Historical Rise in Education

Chapter 1 Introduction: What Can We Learn About Global Education from Historical and Global Policy Studies of the OECD?

Chapter 2 Learning Productivity: The European Productivity Agency—An Educational Enterprise

Chapter 3 The OECD, American Power and the Rise of the “Economics of Education” in the 1960s

Chapter 4 The Birth of the OECD’s Education Policy Area

Chapter 5 Australian Education Joins the OECD: Federalism, Regionalization, and the Role of Education in a Time of Transition

Chapter 6 International Cooperation from the Perspective of INEP Agents: The OECD and Brazilian Public Education, 1996–2006

Chapter 7 The Impact of PISA Studies on Education Policy in a Democratic Perspective: The Implementation of National Tests in Denmark

Chapter 8 OECD and Educational Policy in China

Chapter 9 OECD, PISA and the Educationalization of the World: The Case of the Southern Cone Countries

Chapter 10 The OECD’s Campaign for Distributed Leadership: The Risks of Pushing for More Accountability and Teacher Responsibility

Chapter 11 Constructing School Autonomy with Accountability as a Global Policy Model: A Focus on OECD’s Governance Mechanisms

Chapter 12 How a European ‘Fear of Falling Behind’ Discourse Co-produces Global Standards: Exploring the Inbound and Outbound Performativity of the Transnational Turn in European Education Policy

Chapter 13 Historicizing New Spaces and Relations of the OECD’s Global Educational Governance: PISA for Schools and PISA4U

Chapter 14 The Formation and Workings of a Global Education Governing Complex