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How Policy Makers Employ the Term Quality in Higher Education Policymaking
Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research ( IF 1.750 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-06 , DOI: 10.1080/00313831.2020.1869081
Philipp Pechmann 1 , Sanne Haase 1
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ABSTRACT

Quality in higher education (HE) can be considered a floating signifier that lacks a stable meaning due to the many possible interpretations different actors may ascribe to it in different contexts. We investigate how policy makers employ the term quality in HE policymaking attempting to legitimize policy reforms and find that it is employed in two ways: as “future-proofing tool” and as “relevance-increasing tool”. Furthermore, we show that policy makers employ the term quality when trying to legitimize both overall policy reforms as well as concrete policy design choices that represent politically contested goals and strategies. Our empirical cases are five Danish HE policies adopted since 2003. Our study contributes to existing knowledge with a new understanding of the role and function of quality referral in HE policymaking.



中文翻译:

决策者如何在高等教育决策中使用术语质量

摘要

高等教育质量 (HE) 可以被认为是一个浮动的能指,由于不同的行为者在不同的上下文中可能对其进行许多可能的解释,它缺乏稳定的含义。我们调查了政策制定者如何在高等教育决策中使用质量一词来试图使政策改革合法化,并发现它以两种方式使用:作为“面向未来的工具”和“增加相关性的工具”。此外,我们表明,政策制定者在试图使整体政策改革以及代表政治上有争议的目标和战略的具体政策设计选择合法化时会使用质量一词。我们的实证案例是自 2003 年以来采用的五项丹麦高等教育政策。我们的研究有助于现有知识,对优质推荐在高等教育政策制定中的作用和功能有了新的理解。

更新日期:2021-01-06
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