A Comparative Analysis of the Chilean and Colombian Systems of Quality Assurance in Higher Education

Autor/in	Duque, Juan Felipe
Titel	A Comparative Analysis of the Chilean and Colombian Systems of Quality Assurance in Higher Education
Quelle	In: Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 82 (2021) 3, S.669-683 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560
DOI	10.1007/s10734-020-00633-z
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Quality Assurance; Cultural Differences; Public Policy; Political Issues; Educational Quality; Chile; Colombia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Qualitätssicherung; Kultureller Unterschied; Öffentliche Ordnung; Politischer Faktor; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Kolumbien
Abstract	Over the past 30 years, quality assurance in higher education has rapidly developed on a global scale and become a widely studied research topic. However, a good deal of the research on this issue has been subject to an instrumental bias. The attention given to the technical features and expected results of quality assurance has overshadowed the analysis of its political and symbolic dimensions. This article argues that the political sociology of public policy instrumentation--a conceptual framework that foregrounds the technical and the social nature of public policy instruments, as well as their unexpected effects--can bring the instrumental, political, and symbolic dimensions of quality assurance together. To support this claim, the article presents a comparative analysis of the Chilean and Colombian systems of quality assurance in higher education, two cases that might seem analogous at first glance due to their instrumental commonalities but reflect contrasting approaches to quality: a flexible and an excellence-oriented approach, respectively. (As Provided).
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