ABSTRACT

This article introduces the Special Issue ‘Re-reading the OECD and education: the emergence of a global governing complex’. Its distinctive contribution is related to its dual epistemological aims: to explore how different conceptual lenses and methodological approaches add to our understanding of the OECD as an intergovernmental organisation; and second, to understand the ways in which the strategic activities and priorities of the OECD have been constructed, historically and contemporarily, and the implications in terms of governance and education on a global scale. Broadly, this dual dynamic – of ‘seeing the OECD’ and ‘seeing like the OECD’ – has generated the papers included in this Special Issue. Our Introduction outlines the specific foci and contributions of these papers with reference to four thematic lines of analysis in the research literature: (i) the changing capacities and positions of the OECD in global governance; (ii) the main ideas and styles of reasoning underpinning OECD governance; (iii) the formal and informal processes and workings of OECD’s policy formation; and (iv) the impact and wider implications of the OECD in education policy and practice.

摘要

本文介绍了“重新阅读经合组织和教育：全球治理综合体的出现”这一特刊。它的独特贡献与它的双重认识论目标有关：探索不同的概念镜头和方法论方法如何加深我们对经合组织作为政府间组织的理解；第二，了解历史和当代构造经合组织战略活动和优先事项的方式，以及在全球范围内对治理和教育的影响。从广义上讲，这种“观察经合组织”和“像经合组织一样”的双重动力产生了本期特刊所载的论文。我们的导言根据研究文献中的四个主题分析概述了这些论文的具体重点和贡献：（i）OECD在全球治理中不断变化的能力和地位；（ii）支撑经合组织治理的主要推理思想和方式；（iii）经合组织政策形成的正式和非正式程序与运作；（iv）经合组织对教育政策和实践的影响和更广泛的影响。