Scripting solutions for the future
The OECD’s advocacy of happiness and well-being
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11894552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Min Ji Kim (0000-0002-6027-7031, Department of Education, Practice and Society, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 441-457 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-0068 • E-ISSN: 1360-0486 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03050068.2024.2354638 |
| OpenAlex | W4397050712 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 51 |
Over the past decade, the OECD has gradually shifted its governing mechanism from promoting ‘best practices’ based on comparative data on pupils’ cognitive skills to actively advocating for individual and collective well-being as an alternative and ideal future. This article focuses on the OECD’s use of ‘techno-scientific fictive scripts’ as a strategy to promote happiness and well-being as solutions to anticipated crises, despite their conceptual ambiguity and token usage. It analyses how the OECD’s recent ‘Future of Education’ projects have sought to steer its audience towards shared concerns and expectations of the future, while simultaneously asserting its technical expertise in future studies methodologies. It argues that by returning from endorsing data-driven policies to making futuristic claims using future studies methodologies, the OECD endeavours to redefine itself as both a pathfinder and a problem solver, simultaneously blending its human capital imperatives with technological inevitability in its vision of the future
Happiness · Political science · Scripting language · Sociology · Computer Science · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
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The waning legitimacy of international organisations and their promissory visions
The rise of social and emotional development in the global education discourse, 1998–2023
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Pisa 2018 Assessment and Analytical Framework
Beyond Academic Learning
Governing Knowledge
The OECD Better Life Initiative
The Many Meanings of Quality Education
Seven Models of Framing
Managing Legitimacy
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Generating and managing legitimacy
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Comparative education, the ‘New Paradigm’ and policy borrowing
Promises promises’
The OECD’s ‘Well-being 2030’ agenda
A historical perspective on the OECD’s ‘humanitarian turn’
Governing by numbers
Framing and selling global education policy
Better policies for better lives’
Educational imaginaries
Scripting possible futures of nanotechnologies
The OECD and the expansion of Pisa
Framing
Understanding 'anticipatory governance
Techniques of futuring
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |