Overview
- Attends to a widespread societal phenomenon, which engages a growing number of professionals, administrators and policymakers
- Offers insights concerning the interplay between governing, evaluation and knowledge
- Provides knowledge of how evaluation and quality assurance policy and practice are part of governing and hence influence education
Part of the book series: Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices (ENSIP)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Higher education governance
- Quality and assurance reforms
- Swedish higher education
- European Higher Education Area
- National evaluation systems
- Education policy and practice
- Quality assurance in higher education
- ENQA
- Framing of evaluation results
- Governing by evaluation
- Performing evaluation and quality assurance
- Open Access
- Higher education policy
- Higher education reform
- Evaluation in higher education
- Governing by evaluation
- ENQA
- Media and higher education
About this book
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 highereducation 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.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus
Book Subtitle: Swedish Higher Education as a Case
Editors: Christina Segerholm, Agneta Hult, Joakim Lindgren, Linda Rönnberg
Series Title: Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21143-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21142-4Published: 18 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21145-5Published: 11 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21143-1Published: 10 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2570-0251
Series E-ISSN: 2570-026X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 208
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, Assessment, Testing and Evaluation, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership