OECD’s dominant discourses of the low-performer and the production of subjects

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Abstract

This article aims at troubling the dominant discourses around OECD’s portrayal of the low-performer. It deconstructs and maps the taken-for-granted truths that are built under the assumption that an accumulation of risk factors on students would pose a threat to the economic growth of a country. From this reading, the low-performer is taken as a child in need of salvation full of disadvantages that should be overcome. By building on a Deleuzian nonsense, the analysis plays with other types of correlations to conclude that the low-performer is a fabrication for the production of the underachiever.

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