De-scandalisation and international assessments: the reception of IEA surveys in Sweden during the 1970sFootnote¹

1 This article has been developed in two research projects: “From Paris to Pisa: Governing Education by Comparison 1867-2015” and “A School in Crisis: Changing Crisis Discourses and Unchanging Figures of Thought, 1950-2020.” Both projects are funded by the Swedish Research Council.

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