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Lost in translation? A case study of Macao in Fabricating a European education space in Asia
TERESA SOU-KUAN VONG; MATILDA WONG
2014-06
Source PublicationEuropean Educational Research Journal
ISSN1474-9041
Volume13Issue:3Pages:350-359
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?

DOI10.2304/eerj.2014.13.3.350
URLView the original
Language英語English
WOS IDWOS:000212980300008
PublisherSymposium Journals Ltd
Scopus ID2-s2.0-84904868648
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionFaculty of Education
AffiliationFaculty of Education, University of Macau, Av Padre Tomas Pereira, Taipa, Macao
First Author AffilicationFaculty of Education
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TERESA SOU-KUAN VONG,MATILDA WONG. Lost in translation? A case study of Macao in Fabricating a European education space in Asia[J]. European Educational Research Journal, 2014, 13(3), 350-359.
APA TERESA SOU-KUAN VONG., & MATILDA WONG (2014). Lost in translation? A case study of Macao in Fabricating a European education space in Asia. European Educational Research Journal, 13(3), 350-359.
MLA TERESA SOU-KUAN VONG,et al."Lost in translation? A case study of Macao in Fabricating a European education space in Asia".European Educational Research Journal 13.3(2014):350-359.
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