The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus
Swedish Higher Education as a Case
Contributor(s)
Segerholm, Christina (editor)
Hult, Agneta (editor)
Lindgren, Joakim (editor)
Rönnberg, Linda (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
This Open Access book analyses the interplay between governing, evaluation and knowledge with an empirical focus on Swedish higher education. It investigates the origins, logics, and mechanisms of evaluation and quality assurance reforms and their dynamic interactions with institutional, national and European policy contexts. The chapters report findings from extensive empirical studies that offer detailed insight into the work of governing in higher education, by giving voice to actors at various levels and positions including the ministry, national agency and University employees. Central themes include the influence of European policy, changing system designs, media relations and quality assurance enactments in University institutions. The book also explores the ways in which an emerging professional cadre, labelled qualocrats, enacts and mediates evaluation and quality assurance policy and practice. Taken together, the expanding evaluation machinery in Swedish higher education highlights the pivotal role of knowledge as a governing resource, and points to special features of evaluation as a particular form of practice that makes knowledge work for governing.
Keywords
Education; Higher education; Assessment; Educational policy; Education and state; Educational sociology; School management and organization; School administrationDOI
10.1007/978-3-030-21143-1Publisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/booksPublication date and place
Cham, 2019Series
Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices,Classification
Education
Educational strategies and policy
Educational administration and organization
Education: examinations and assessment
Higher education, tertiary education