Shared Misunderstandings? Competing and Conflicting Meaning Structures in Quality Assurance

Autor/in	Vettori, Oliver
Titel	Shared Misunderstandings? Competing and Conflicting Meaning Structures in Quality Assurance
Quelle	In: Quality in Higher Education, 24 (2018) 2, S.85-101 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1353-8322
DOI	10.1080/13538322.2018.1491786
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Educational Quality; Quality Assurance; Discourse Analysis; Conflict; Social Sciences; Hermeneutics; Educational Administration; Entrepreneurship; Consumer Science; Comparative Analysis; Foreign Countries; Organizational Change; Commercialization; Educational Change; Institutional Evaluation; Austria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Qualitätssicherung; Diskursanalyse; Konflikt; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Hermeneutik; Bildungsverwaltung; Schuladministration; Schulverwaltung; Unternehmungsgeist; Ausland; Organisationswandel; Bildungsreform; Österreich
Abstract	This article shows how the professional discourse on quality assurance in higher education is building on latent meaning structures that can be competing with each other and even subvert the messages on the manifest level. Taking the case of the Austrian higher education system as an example and employing a reconstructive-interpretative approach rooted in social science hermeneutics, five different meaning patterns are presented: a consumer protection pattern, an educative pattern, an entrepreneurial pattern, a managerial pattern and a quality engineering pattern. By analysing and comparing these patterns, the study argues for paying more attention to latencies and implicit meanings that might be overlooked by focusing on the manifest level of the discourse, in order to not lose track of important contradictions and sources of potential conflict. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01