Grappling with PISA: Reception and translation in the Hungarian policy discourse

TY - JOUR

T1 - Grappling with PISA

T2 - Reception and translation in the Hungarian policy discourse

AU - Neumann, Eszter

AU - Berenyi, Eszter

PY - 2009

Y1 - 2009

N2 - Hungary is one of the European countries whose education system has repeatedly been diagnosed as showing below average performance with above -average variance between schools when compared to other countries participating in the OECD's PISA survey . This article explores how this diagnosis was received by domestic actors and discusses the main characteristics and arguments of the national public debates invoked by the PISA. The national PISA discourse is analysed by looking at how the problem defi nitions pro- posed by international ideas about the necessity to strengthen ties between schooling, la- bour market demands and economic competitiveness eventually reframed national policy solutions after a process of translation and recontextualizat ion.

AB - Hungary is one of the European countries whose education system has repeatedly been diagnosed as showing below average performance with above -average variance between schools when compared to other countries participating in the OECD's PISA survey . This article explores how this diagnosis was received by domestic actors and discusses the main characteristics and arguments of the national public debates invoked by the PISA. The national PISA discourse is analysed by looking at how the problem defi nitions pro- posed by international ideas about the necessity to strengthen ties between schooling, la- bour market demands and economic competitiveness eventually reframed national policy solutions after a process of translation and recontextualizat ion.

KW - pisa

KW - education policy

M3 - Article

SN - 1646-6500

VL - 4

SP - 41

JO - SISIFO: EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES JOURNAL

JF - SISIFO: EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES JOURNAL

IS - 3

ER -