Carvalho, Luís MiguelCosta, Estela2017-04-192017-04-192017Carvalho, L. M., & Costa, E. (2017). The praise of mutual surveillance in Europe. In R. Normand, & J.-L. Derouet (Eds.), A european politics of education: Perspectives from sociology, policy studies and politics (pp.53-72). Oxon: Routledge.978-1-138-66907-9http://hdl.handle.net/10451/27494This chapter addresses the uses and effects of PISA in the imagination and the scrutiny of educational problems and solutions in Europe, and, concomitantly, its participation in the creation of a European policy space in education(Lawn and Grek, 2012). The first section of the chapter highlights and discusses two concomitant features of PISA participation in the contemporary policy processes: the different uses and interpretations of PISA; the atraction it achieves in diverse social worlds. The second sectionthe chapter describes analyses the densification of relations between EC/DGEAC and OECD/PISA and the reception of PISA results at the EU level, and the agenda-setting, rule-setting and rule following iniciatives built upon it.engMutual surveillanceEuropePISAEducation policybook part