The Evolution of the Quality Agenda in Higher Education: The Politics of Legitimation

Autor/in	Filippakou, Ourania
Titel	The Evolution of the Quality Agenda in Higher Education: The Politics of Legitimation
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Administration and History, 49 (2017) 1, S.37-52 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0620
DOI	10.1080/00220620.2017.1252738
Schlagwörter	Educational Quality; Higher Education; Epistemology; Quality Assurance; Educational Change; Politics of Education; Educational Trends; Global Approach; International Relations; Criticism; Political Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Educational History; Audits (Verification); Commercialization; Institutional Evaluation; Discourse Analysis; Evaluators; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Erkenntnistheorie; Qualitätssicherung; Bildungsreform; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsentwicklung; Globales Denken; Internationale Beziehungen; Kritik; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Ausland; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Diskursanalyse; Großbritannien
Abstract	Taking the evolution of the quality agenda in the UK as its centrepiece, this article analyses the politics of legitimation accompanying the emergence of quality assurance and the contribution of quality enhancement to the power play therein. This article argues that over the last 25 years the quality agenda has been used as a proxy--a state steering mechanism--to fulfil political ends and that two trends mark that history: the rise of the regulatory state and the development of quasi-markets. The article also places these issues into the contexts of globalisation and the emergence of regions of quality assurance around the world. However, what shapes the article is not this argument per se, but trying critically to reflect on the quality agenda as a political position, and see the ways in which the epistemology of higher education is embedded in the politics of both national reforms and international political relations. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01