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Global Traveling Panopticon: PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), Epistemology of Numbers, and Making of the Global Citizen

Sun, April 10, 2:45 to 4:15pm, Marriott Marquis, Floor: Level Four, Independence Salon E

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This paper examines the styles of reasoning (Hacking, 1992) in recent Korean curriculum reforms based on the results of comparative international achievement test, entangled with the will to grow “global citizen.” In the recent Korean curriculum reform, growing “global citizen” is one of the main focuses. By the international educational event, such as Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), the needs of “becoming global” is reinforced and gained nation-wide attention. This paper discusses how the governmentality and epistemology of number are deployed and enacted in current curriculum reform in Korea, and the conditions of possibility of PISA, the global traveling panopticon.

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