Reclaiming Education in the Age of PISA provides a critical analysis of the OECD?s educational agenda and its main tool, namely, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). Based on an analysis of the OECD?s public documents, including publications, webpages, and videos, d?Agnese argues that PISA is not just an assessment tool, but rather an all-encompassing framework that intends to govern education, schooling, living and society worldwide. This creation of what d?Agnese calls a life-brand raises concerns that education and learning are becoming wares and that, consequently, we run the risk of transforming schools into providers and teachers into agents of preconceived learning packages.In pursuing only one concept of education, and a very narrow one at that, d?Agnese argues that OECD not only narrows down education to a mere reproductive process, but that such an approach...
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