ABSTRACT

This chapter analyzes the connection between OECD's educational perspective, neoliberalism and testing regime, arguing that OECD's vision of education is organic to both neoliberal framework and testing regime. It focuses on PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment. Based on an examination of OECD's public documents on PISA, including publications, webpages and videos, and consistently to the analysis The chapter provides a critical analysis of such a programme. The rhetorical passage consists in transforming a peculiar vision of what learning should be about into the one and only vision available and worthy of pursuit. The chapter attempts to unravel PISA's colonialist stance. A powerful direction situates education in a well-defined value square of money, success, evidence and competition. The chapter concludes by analyzing two videos by Andrea Schleicher, the Director of the OECD Directorate for Education and Skills, these videos being a meaningful document of OECD's ethical gesture.