Panic and Stoicism: Media, PISA and the Construction of Truth

Autor/in	Crome, Jennifer
Titel	Panic and Stoicism: Media, PISA and the Construction of Truth
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 20 (2022) 7, S.828-839 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Crome, Jennifer)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1177/14782103211064660
Schlagwörter	International Assessment; Foreign Countries; Achievement Tests; Secondary School Students; Mass Media Effects; Educational Policy; Data; News Reporting; News Media; Anxiety; Emotional Response; Newspapers; Neoliberalism; Mass Media Role; Australia; Singapore; Program for International Student Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Sekundarschüler; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Daten; News report; Reportage; Nachrichtenwesen; Angst; Emotionales Verhalten; Newspaper; Zeitung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Australien; Singapur
Abstract	In December 2019, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development released the latest results of its triennial Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) testing. What followed was a flurry of media reports in the participant countries about the 2018 PISA results that were interpretive rather than descriptive. Whilst there is a considerable body of literature describing PISA's impact on education policies, there are fewer studies that examine how PISA data is presented to the public by the media and how this contributes to the construction of policy truths. As part of a broader study of policy landscapes in the Asia Pacific region, this paper provides a critical analysis of the mediatisation of the 2018 PISA results in Australia and Singapore. It will be demonstrated that in Australia, much of the reporting was characterised by panic, whereas in Singapore the reporting was much more measured, exhibiting a stoicism. Drawing on a corpus of articles published in Australian and Singaporean newspapers in December 2019, and informed by the work of Michel Foucault, the analysis will make visible how dominant discourses used by the media operated as regimes of truth to advance neoliberal imperatives. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01