La renovación de la acreditación de alta calidad en instituciones de educación superior Mitos, lógicas e isomorfismos

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

de Jesús Viloria Escobar, Javier

Contributor:

Oswaldo Sánchez Buitrago, Jorge

Language:

Spanish

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Colombia Editorial Unimagdalena 2024

Language Note:

Spanish

Summary:

This work makes a reading of the processes of renewal of the high quality accreditation of higher education institutions (HEI) in Colombia, taking as a reference the new sociological institutionalism, from its concepts of myths, logics and isomorphisms of organizations. From a comprehensive exercise, we seek to contribute to the resignification of such processes from the epistemological assumptions of organizational studies, through the configuration of emerging scenarios and orientations of management and quality assurance, when HEIs are assumed as complex organizations that are socially constructed.In terms of units of analysis, 24 HEIs were taken, through the content analysis of an equal number of institutional accreditation renewal resolutions and 24 self-evaluation reports. Likewise, an instrumental case study was implemented to make in-depth readings of the realities of the accreditation processes, and questionnaires and interviews were applied to members of the National Accreditation Council (CNA), peer evaluators and leaders of quality offices in HEIs.The central argument of this book is that the processes of renewal of institutional accreditation for high quality have been recurrently approached from explanatory and technical-instrumental rationalities; displacing the critical and transformative reading of the social complexities of HEIs as pedagogical organizations of a social, historical and complex nature. Therefore, it is necessary to redefine the processes of self-evaluation, accreditation and self-regulation of HEIs with a view to the renewal of institutional accreditation.