Untangling the global-distant-local knot: the politics of national academic achievement testing in Japan
Untangling the global-distant-local knot: the politics of national academic achievement testing in Japan
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解开全球-遥远-本地的结：日本国家学业成绩测试的政治
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2013
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Keita Takayama
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Keita Takayama
本研究考察了日本教育融入全球教育改革运动的最显著表现之一：2007年重新引入全国学业成绩测试（Zenkoku gakuryoku gakushuu joukyou chousa）。在这样做的时候，我的目标是解开复杂的国家和全球压力的交织作为新的模式，以考试为基础的治理成为嵌入在日本的教育政策背景。本研究将全球政策趋同的讨论置于对日本国内学术考试的政治斗争史和政策实施时的国内权力动态的密切分析中。特别关注的是教育部和其他关键政治人物的作用，促进，阻止和调解全球传播的治理模式，从而争取国家评估的特定配置。最后，我发现在更广泛的文献在教育政策研究的全球政策趋同和国家的特殊性之间的复杂联系，并在这样做梳理出的见解阐明的作用，“参与”的政策奖学金在日益全球化的政治教育改革。
This study examines one of the most notable manifestations of Japanese education’s incorporation into the global education restructuring movement: the 2007 reintroduction of national academic achievement testing (zenkoku gakuryoku gakushuu joukyou chousa). In so doing, I aim to untangle the complex intermingling of national and global pressures as the new mode of test-based governance became embedded in the Japanese education policy context. The study situates the discussion of global policy convergence in a close analysis of the Japanese history of political struggles over national academic testing and the domestic power dynamics at the time of the policy implementation. Particular focus is placed on the role of the Ministry of Education and other key political figures that facilitated, blocked, and mediated the globally circulated governance model and thus struggled over the particular configuration of the national assessment. In conclusion, I locate the findings in the wider literature on the complex link between global policy convergence and national particularities in education policy studies, and in so doing tease out the insights for articulating the role of ‘engaged’ policy scholarship in the increasingly globalized politics of education reform.