Zhang, Chenjian; Akbik, Alexander - 2012
In this paper we examine the Chinese domestic discourse centering on Shanghai's participation in the PISA study and … interpretations of the 2009 results. The main focus is to examine why local education authority took part in the PISA project and how … actors from the education authority use PISA as a tool to legitimize their reform stance. We adopted discourse and rhetorical …