Kim, Min Ji;
(2024)
Scripting solutions for the future: the OECD’s advocacy of happiness and well-being.
Comparative Education
10.1080/03050068.2024.2354638.
(In press).
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Scripting solutions for the future: the OECD’s advocacy of happiness and well-being |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/03050068.2024.2354638 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2024.2354638 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | OECD; future of education; global governance; happiness; well- being;scenarios; fictive scripts |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192592 |
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