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23 SES 13 A, Evidence-based Policies in Education
Paper Session
Contribution
The OECD together with the OECD Network on Early Childhood and Care (ECEC) decided in 2014 the development of a new international comparative study: the "OECD International ECEC Staff Survey". This new survey will collect data from pedagogical staff and leaders of day-care centres in order to compare pedagogical practices internationally, as well as working conditions and educational experiences, centre management practices and a range of other themes. Nine countries in and outside the OECD area participate in the first cycle of the survey that went into field trial in 2017.
In this presentation the development phase of this new survey is described and the way from the initial idea to implementation critically reflected. The focus is on two elements of survey development in particular, fundamental decisions on the methodological approach underlying the survey and questionnaire development. Rationales regarding the development of the new OECD ECEC staff survey from multiple perspectives of national and international actors (in particular the OECD) are disclosed and discussed. Rarely studied, though important questions will be addressed, like who initiates and drives the development of such surveys, how and by what means.
International organisations like the OECD have gained increasing importance in national policy making in the last decades. In a globalised world in which states and societies are more and more interested in understanding and learning from each other, international comparative data has become an increasingly important element to do so (cf. Martens/Jakobi 2010; Lawn 2016). Primary producers and analysts of international comparative data are international organisations like the OECD which have thus taken an important position in policy making processes. The OECD in particular has been recognised as an increasingly important player in international education (cf. Bloem 2016; Meyer/Benavot 2013).
The “OECD International ECEC Staff Survey” provides a case study to enable us to understand the “institutional dynamics” (Nagel et al. 2010, p. 6) that unfold within the OECD in programme development. Such “institutional dynamics” draw upon OECD staff who develop ideas and design projects which make their entry into the various decision-making bodies of the OECD. In this way, international organisations like the OECD create opportunities to develop their “own agendas” within the organisation, thus to produce autonomy of action and decision making power (Nagel et al. 2010, p. 6) and to become their “own authorities“, that operate partly independent of member states (Barnett/Finnemore 2004, p. 156).
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