The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus : Swedish Higher Education as a Case / edited by Christina Segerholm, Agneta Hult, Joakim Lindgren, Linda Rönnberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Segerholm, Christina., Editor.

Contributor:

Segerholm, Christina, Editor.

Hult, Agneta., Editor.

Lindgren, Joakim, Editor.

Rönnberg, Linda, Editor.

Series:

Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices, 2570-026X

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher.

Educational tests and measurements.

Education and state.

Educational sociology.

School management and organization.

Higher Education.

Assessment and Testing.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Sociology of Education.

Organization and Leadership.

Local Subjects:

Higher Education.

Assessment and Testing.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Sociology of Education.

Organization and Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XVII, 208 p. 4 illus.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2019.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. Governing by evaluation, Setting the scene; Christina Segerholm, Linda Rönnberg, Joakim Lindgren and Agneta Hult

2. National evaluation systems; Christina Segerholm and Joakim Lindgren

3. Europe in Sweden; Christina Segerholm and Agneta Hult

4. Navigating higher education institutions in times of quality assurance, The assumptive worlds of vice chancellors; Agneta Hult

5. Hayek and the red tape: The politics of evaluation and quality assurance reform, from shortcut governing to policy rerouting; Joakim Lindgren and Linda Rönnberg

6. Quality evaluation and the media; Linda Rönnberg

7. Enacting a national reform interval in times of uncertainty, ‘evaluation gluttony’ for the willing; Joakim Lindgren, Linda Rönnberg, Agneta Hult and Christina Segerholm

8. Re-launching national evaluation and quality assurance, expectations and preparations; Christina Segerholm

9. Re-launching national evaluation and quality assurance, governing by piloting; Joakim Lindgren, Linda Rönnberg, Agneta Hult and Christina Segerholm

10. Evaluation machinery, qualocrats, and the seemingly inevitable problem of expansion; Joakim Lindgren, Linda Rönnberg, Agneta Hult and Christina Segerholm

Appendix; Christina Segerholm.

Notes:

Bibliography after each chapter

ISBN:

9783030211431

3030211436

OCLC:

1132429124