Is the United States losing its status as a reference point for educational policy in the age of global comparison? The case of South Korea
- Authors
- Sung, Youl-Kwan; Lee, Yoonmi
- Issue Date
- 2017
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Keywords
- Policy borrowing; comparative education; external policy referencing; Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
- Citation
- OXFORD REVIEW OF EDUCATION, v.43, no.2, pp.162 - 179
- Journal Title
- OXFORD REVIEW OF EDUCATION
- Volume
- 43
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 162
- End Page
- 179
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hongik/handle/2020.sw.hongik/6927
- DOI
- 10.1080/03054985.2016.1257424
- ISSN
- 0305-4985
- Abstract
- This paper seeks to contribute to recent comparative discussions about the shift of traditional referential points as a result of new global governance by the OECD through PISA. In doing so, the authors investigate whether the lower PISA rankings of the US have resulted in the shifting of its referential status in South Korea. For the purposes of analysis, media representation of US education in South Korea is analysed by using two disparate newspapers from two time periods: three years before the first PISA release in 2001 and three years after 2009. This paper uses media discourses as primary data, but it also considers other complementary data such as policy documents and government policy statements on education. Recently, global governance through comparative data has become more significant, but the results of this study suggest that one should be careful about oversimplification. The results of this study imply that the pattern of external referencing in media representation hinges on historical, political, and cultural experiences rather than purely evidence-based discourses, at least in the case of South Korea.
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