The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus : : Swedish Higher Education As a Case.
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| Superior document: | Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices Series |
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| 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
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (218 pages) |
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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.
- References.