The Contradictory Managerialism of University Quality Assurance

Autor/in	Reid, Ian C.
Titel	The Contradictory Managerialism of University Quality Assurance
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 24 (2009) 5, S.575-593 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
Schlagwörter	School Choice; Discourse Analysis; Quality Control; Inferences; Educational Quality; Higher Education; Foreign Countries; Social Environment; Politics; Guides; Language Usage; Global Approach; Business; Educational Administration; Audits (Verification); Educational Policy; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Diskursanalyse; Qualitätskontrolle; Inference; Inferenz; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ausland; Soziales Umfeld; Politik; Handbuch; Leitfaden; Sprachgebrauch; Globales Denken; Business studies; Wirtschaft; Betriebswirtschaft; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Australien
Abstract	This paper investigates how Australian universities are being disciplined to behave as commercial enterprises by the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA). The manual produced by AUQA, for the purpose of conducting audits of Australian universities, is analysed. I use an analytical framework that provides a means by which a text from the "manual" genre can be analysed with respect to social and political contexts, using Critical Discourse Analysis. I analyse changes in the language used in subsequent editions of the manual, drawing inferences about how the AUQA manual constructs universities to behave as particular kinds of business entities. Depictions of the globalised and virtualised university are silenced in the texts. Contrary to the rhetoric of the university being a flexible, globalised enterprise, I find that universities are constructed as localised businesses appearing to be independent of direct government control but nevertheless constrained in the scope of their operation. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10