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

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The OECD’s Historical Rise in Education

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The purpose of this chapter is to compare the countries of Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile concerning their connections with the OECD. In particular, this chapter aims to analyze how these three countries of the Southern Hemisphere have established relations with the OECD at the level of the educational system through the implementation of the PISA tests. The interest in these countries lies in the fact that they do not belong to the wealthy nations of the North but are assessed with the same tools. This chapter finds both convergences and divergences in the rationales for participating in standardized assessments. It also argues the presence of a new kind of educationalization advanced by the systematic assessment of education systems by an independent organization such as the OECD.

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    Standardized tests to measure educational quality, Operativos Nacionales de Evaluación (ONE for its acronym in Spanish), were implemented in Argentina from 1993 to 2014. In 2015 these were replaced by Aprender, also a national standardized test.

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    The INEEd is a public institution of non-state law. This means that it is fully autonomous in its actions. It is linked to the Executive Branch through the Ministry of Education and Culture. It has its own budget established by law. The INEEd is in charge of conducting external assessments for early childhood, primary, and secondary education.

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Acosta, F. (2019). OECD, PISA and the Educationalization of the World: The Case of the Southern Cone Countries. In: Ydesen, C. (eds) The OECD’s Historical Rise in Education. Global Histories of Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33799-5_9

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