ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to unravel the connection between OECD's educational perspective, neoliberalism and testing regime, thus shedding a light on OECD's educational gesture and underlying view of knowledge, learning and society. It analyzes five OECD publications and documents, ranging from 1996 to 2016, focusing on the construction and development of knowledge and education. OECD and its main educational tool, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), are both a means and the engine of a neoliberal educational agenda. The chapter also analyzes what may be labelled OECD's economics-based conception of education. OECD's gesture and overall position with regard to education, learning and knowledge are evident since the 1990s. By drawing on contemporary educational literature, the chapter argues how the current frame of testing regime and performance-based accountability measures, a frame that heavily pervades education and schooling worldwide, is organic to OECD's neoliberal vision of education.
