ABSTRACT

In 2018 the OECD added a set of global competence measures to its PISA programme, and reported on the outcomes in November 2020. In this paper I explore the provenance of the idea of global competence underpinning the OECD-PISA Global Competence framework and measure. The official account by the OECD references the OECD PISA Governing Board, Expert Panels, National Teams and Consortia engaged in the creation and delivery of this assessment tool. However, in this paper I problematise this narrative and sketch out an alternate genealogy that seems to operate in the shadowlands of the official account. I describe a web of relationships and projects and identify nodal actors like Asia Society, experts and brokers in élite US universities, agencies involved in the circulation of results. I argue that this rendering of global competence is not only provincial in that its ideational base can be linked to US corporate interests, but its pedagogical impulse is in shaping the culture of the new capitalism, on the one hand, and managing its tendencies to reduce social cohesion, on the other.

摘要

经合组织于2018年在其PISA计划中增加了一套全球能力衡量标准，并报告了2020年11月的成果。在本文中，我探索了以OECD-PISA全球能力框架和措施为基础的全球能力理念的来历。经合组织的官方账目提到了从事该评估工具的创建和交付的经合组织PISA理事会，专家小组，国家小组和财团。但是，在本文中，我对这一叙述进行了质疑，并勾勒出一种似乎在官方账目的阴影地带运作的替代谱系。我描述了一个由关系和项目组成的网络，并确定了诸如亚洲协会（Asia Society）之类的行动者，美国一流大学的专家和经纪人，参与成果发布的机构。