The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus : : Swedish Higher Education As a Case.

• Superior document: Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices Series
• Author: Segerholm, Christina.
• TeilnehmendeR: Hult, Agneta.; Lindgren, Joakim.; Rönnberg, Linda.; Olofsson, Anders.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (218 pages)

Table of Contents

The Governing-Evaluation- Knowledge Nexus -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Governing by Evaluation: Setting the Scene -- Introduction -- Research Context and Project Contributions -- The Swedish Case -- Swedish Higher Education and Its Policy Context -- Understanding Governing, Knowledge and Evaluation -- Governing -- Knowledge -- Evaluation -- Outline of the Book -- References -- National Evaluation Systems -- Introduction -- A Theoretical Approach to Evolving National Evaluation Systems -- Shifting Policy Contexts: Continuities and Shifts in Evaluation Designs -- -1994 -- 1995-2001 -- 2001-2007 -- 2007-2011 -- 2011-2014 -- Discussion -- Governing by Changing Designs -- Governing by Expectations -- Building an Evaluation Machinery? -- Finally -- References -- Europe in Sweden -- Introduction -- Theoretical Notes, Methods, and Material -- The ENQA -- The ENQA's Membership Requirements and Sweden -- European Policy Enters a Proposed National EQA System -- EQA Policy Dissemination -- European and Other Dissemination Channels -- What Policy Is Important for Sweden? -- Internal Swedish Dissemination Channels -- Discussion -- Finally -- References -- Navigating Higher Education Institutions in Times of Quality Assurance: The Assumptive Worlds of Vice Chancellors -- Introduction -- Background -- Methodology and Data -- The Higher Education Landscape According to the Vice Chancellors -- The University as Freedom and Integrity -- The University as Societal Progress -- The University as Regional Benefit -- The University as a State Authority -- National Evaluation and Quality Assurance -- A Changed Higher Education Landscape -- Finally -- References.

Hayek and the Red Tape: The Politics of Evaluation and Quality Assurance Reform - From Shortcut Governing to Policy Rerouting -- Introdu ction -- Approaching the Politics of Evaluation in Higher Education -- Governing Evaluation: Governing Knowledge in Swedish Higher Education -- Modes of Policymaking: Issues of Deliberation and Speed -- Data and Sources -- The Process Leading up to the 2011-2014 EQA System: Shortcut Governing -- Preparing a New EQA System -- A Rejected Agency Proposal Caused a Stir -- A Heated Political Debate -- Implementing the Debated EAQ System -- The Process Leading up to 2016 EQA System: Policy Rerouting -- Trust of and in Swedish Higher Education and Beyond -- Shifts and Continuities in Governing (by) Evaluation? -- The Politics of Evaluation and Quality Assurance Reform -- It Is Natural to Measure and Assure Quality in Higher Education -- Expansion and Complexity when Governing Situated Knowledge -- Finally -- References -- Quality Evaluations and the Media -- Introduction -- Approaching the Media-Quality Assurance Relationship -- Logics of Appropriateness -- The Public Agency-Media Relationship -- Cases and Empirical Sources -- The Policy Context and the 2011-2014 EQA System -- Evaluation Agency Framing of the Evaluation Results -- Media Coverage of Two Subject Areas -- Education -- Specialist Nursing -- Media Communication, Agencies, and Evaluation -- Bureaucratic Logic of Appropriateness in Agency Branding -- What Happened to Critical Debate? -- Finally -- References -- Enacting a National Reform Interval in Times of Uncertainty: Evaluation Gluttony Among the Willing -- Introduction -- Mind the Gap: Conceptualising the National "Reform Interval" -- The Reform Interval: The Government's Work Towards a Parliament Decision -- Four Cases: Methods and Materials.

The Reform Interval: IQA Work in Four Higher Education Institutions -- Pegasus -- Virgo -- Orion -- Hercules -- Policy Enactments in the Reform Interval -- Governing "Between" Reforms: Anticipation and Action -- A Temporary Motor Failure in the Evaluation Machinery? -- Understanding Governing in the Reform Interval: Standardisation and Homogenisation -- Finally -- References -- Relaunching National Evaluation and Quality Assurance: Expectations and Preparations -- Introduction -- The 2016 EQA System: Suspenders and Belt -- Comments on the Design Work of the EQA System -- The Institutional Reviews: Quality as Assuring Quality Assurance -- Comments on the Design Work of the Institutional Reviews -- Discussion -- Finally -- References -- Relaunching National Evaluation and Quality Assurance: Governing by Piloting -- Introduction -- The Sequencing of the Review -- The Sequencing of the Pilot -- Preparing to Assess and Preparing to Be Assessed -- HEIs -- The SHEA -- Assessors -- Collecting and Providing Data -- Web-Based Interviews -- Site Visits -- Reaching, Communicating, and Receiving Judgements -- The SHEA -- Assessors -- HEIs -- Post-decision Actions and Reactions -- HEIs -- Perspectives on the Pilot: Work, Actors, and Knowledge -- Expansion of QA Work -- The Work of Translations -- The Work of Qualocrats -- Governing by Piloting -- Finally -- References -- Evaluation Machinery, Qualocrats, and the Seemingly Inevitable Problem of Expansion -- The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus: How Evaluation Makes Knowledge Work for Governing -- The Emerging Evaluation Machinery -- Technologies of and in the Machinery -- The Importance of Human Interaction -- The Work of Qualocrats -- The Burden of Judgement -- Expansion and Increasing Complexity -- References -- Appendix -- Project Approach -- Methodology, Design, and Data -- The Problem of Access.

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