What Is the Problem Represented to Be in China's World-Class University Policy? A Poststructural Analysis

Autor/in	Woo, Etienne
Titel	What Is the Problem Represented to Be in China's World-Class University Policy? A Poststructural Analysis
Quelle	In: Journal of Education Policy, 38 (2023) 4, S.644-664 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Woo, Etienne)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0268-0939
DOI	10.1080/02680939.2022.2045038
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Governance; Neoliberalism; Reputation; Universities; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; University; Universität
Abstract	Underlying current research on China's world-class university (WCU) policy approaches are analytical foci that privilege the agency of social actors and the problem-solving approach to policy analysis. Foucauldian poststructuralists draw our attention to policy document, which is seen as a discourse that organizes and administers society. Inspired by Foucault, Carol Bacchi's 'What's the Problem Represented to Be?' approach (WPR) views policy document as a technology of governmentality. As proposed solutions to a problem, policy text produces the very problem that it seeks to address. Carol Bacchi draws our analytical attention to the rationalities, technologies of governing and subjectification effects created by particular problem representations in the WCU policy. Using WPR, this paper shows that WCU is represented as merely a technical, managerial and organizational problem. Such representations naturally reify WCU in material terms, such as research output, and in a temporal form of state planning. Genealogically, the root of WCU can be traced to the neoliberal movement of knowledge economy. However, Shanghai Ranking overturned this center-periphery landscape in disseminating the concept of WCU. China's one-party state means that WCU is pursued at the expense of sacrificing social sciences and subjecting academics and students to become 'red experts.' (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01