'We're Stubborn Enough to Create Our Own World': How Programme Directors Frame Higher Education Quality in Interdependence

Autor/inn/en	Weenink, Kasja; Aarts, Noelle; Jacobs, Sandra
Titel	'We're Stubborn Enough to Create Our Own World': How Programme Directors Frame Higher Education Quality in Interdependence
Quelle	In: Quality in Higher Education, 28 (2022) 3, S.360-379 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1353-8322
DOI	10.1080/13538322.2021.2008290
Schlagwörter	Educational Quality; Program Administration; Administrator Attitudes; Higher Education; Social Sciences; Foreign Countries; Undergraduate Study; Departments; Barriers; Educational Objectives; Administrator Responsibility; Educational Improvement; Organizational Change; College Faculty; Budgets; Alignment (Education); Student Attitudes; Program Evaluation; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Ausland; Grundstudium; Department; Abteilung; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Organisationswandel; Fakultät; Finanzhaushalt; Schülerverhalten; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Niederlande
Abstract	Little is known about how the complex notion of higher education quality is understood and (strategically) handled by a specific group of key university actors: directors of educational programmes. A framing analysis of in-depth interviews was conducted to explore how bachelor-programme directors in Dutch social science departments understand and enact quality, while maintaining multiple commitments. The analysis revealed that directors share a non-problematic, understanding of quality as realising a good educational programme, programme. They enact different quality frames while upholding their programme and position but face issues in practice. Balancing different goals and interests is a recurrent strategy. The directors' room for manoeuvre to enact their quality views, however, is position-dependent. Whereas some directors can play it out in any direction, others experience responsibility without power. Quality's plasticity provides the flexibility to maintain the idea of improvement, even in limiting circumstances, while preventing structural changes at a more fundamental level. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01