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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 an...

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Other Authors: Segerholm, Christina (Editor), Hult, Agneta (Editor), Lindgren, Joakim (Editor), Rönnberg, Linda (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Evaluating Education: Normative Systems and Institutional Practices,
Subjects:
Education, Higher.
Educational tests and measurements.
Education and state.
Educational sociology.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Higher Education.
Assessment and Testing.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Sociology of Education.
Organization and Leadership.
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Table of 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.

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