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The Governing-Evaluation-Knowledge Nexus : Swedish Higher Education As a Case.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Segerholm, Christina.
Other Authors: Hult, Agneta., Lindgren, Joakim., Rönnberg, Linda., Olofsson, Anders.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2019.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices Series
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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.

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