Keita Takayama

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the role of local actors, specifically, national newspapers and the Ministry of Education, in mediating the potentially homogenising curricular policy pressure of globalisation exerted through the PISA league tables.

TL;DR: Peck et al. as discussed by the authors defined fast policy as a policymaking condition coproduced by intensified and instantaneous connectivity between actors and institutions in varying scales, across places, in this neoliberalization era.

TL;DR: Contesting Coloniality: Rethinking Knowledge Production and Circulation in Comparative and International Education as mentioned in this paper brings to the fore the rarely acknowledged colonial entanglements of knowledge in the field of comparative and international education.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared how the success of the Asian Tiger countries in PISA, especially PISA 2009, was depicted in the media discussion in Australia, Germany and South Korea, and argued that local factors are important in determining whether or not a country becomes a reference society for educational reform.

TL;DR: With the release of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003 results in late 2004, Finland became the focus of international admiration and scholars, journalists, and government officials from around the world flocked to the small Nordic nation in search of the "secret" of its educational accomplishment as mentioned in this paper.