Lost in Translation? A Case Study of Macao in Fabricating a European Education Space in Asia

Autor/inn/en	Vong, Teresa Sou-Kuan; Wong, Matilda
Titel	Lost in Translation? A Case Study of Macao in Fabricating a European Education Space in Asia
Quelle	In: European Educational Research Journal, 11 (2014) 3, S.350-360 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1474-9041
DOI	10.2304/eerj.2014.13.3.350
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Global Approach; International Organizations; Governance; Standards; Benchmarking; Comparative Analysis; Educational History; Asia; Macau; Program for International Student Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Globales Denken; International organisation; International organisations; International organization; Internationale Organisation; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Standard; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Asien
Abstract	The creation of a European education space has been extensively discussed in Europe. Many scholars are concerned about the way in which the emergence of "global governmentality," such as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)'s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), has produced a "soft governance" in which massive numerical data are used to standardise a European education space. Some challenge whether this global development, namely the PISA data, could serve as the "gold standard" in producing the global "script" for national contexts. Asian countries participating in PISA, while engaging in this "process of Europeanisation," have become fanatics in the area of benchmarking and international comparisons without realising the underlying agenda. They consume and are being consumed by the Europeanisation process, and the effects of this "global development" led by International Organisations (IOs) are irreversible. This article is written from an Asian perspective, and is about Macao, a former European colony, and aims to interrogate and to reflect on PISA's impacts on the territory and to reveal what part the OECD has taken to shape and re-order Macao's educational landscape. The European education space was never created during colonial years before 1999. Macao's engagement in the European agenda only commenced when she joined PISA in 2003. The article queries: (1) are we aware of the "fabrication" of a European education space in Macao?; and (2) how do we translate such "fabrication" to our local system? (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10