No Time for Improvement? The Chronopolitics of Quality Assurance

Autor/in	Vettori, Oliver
Titel	No Time for Improvement? The Chronopolitics of Quality Assurance
Quelle	In: Quality in Higher Education, 29 (2023) 3, S.407-420 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1353-8322
DOI	10.1080/13538322.2023.2189454
Schlagwörter	Educational Quality; Quality Assurance; Higher Education; Time; Conceptual Tempo + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Qualitätssicherung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Zeit
Abstract	Time is an omnipresent key dimension in everyone's life, yet academic time has only recently found scholarly attention. The temporal aspects of quality assurance, in particular, are basically unchartered territory. Taking a chronopolitical perspective, this article aims to close the gap, by critically examining how temporalities are firmly embedded in many quality assurance schemes and routines. Using various examples from internal and external quality assurance, the author demonstrates and discusses how such mechanisms are not only binding time but regulating and governing it, imposing temporal norms regarding tempo, rhythm, time-spans, time-scales and time ownership on higher education institutions and the people working and learning there. Concludingly, the article advocates a more reflective approach towards the notion of time in quality assurance, as latent temporalities appear to be far more consequential for the effectiveness of quality assurance than methodological micro-differences. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01